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The Owen Jones Podcast

Chile Stamps On Pinochet's Grave

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Nearly half a century after Salvador Allende's democratically socialist government was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet, the people of Chile decisively voted for leftist Gabriel Boric over far right extremist José Antonio Kast. Is the Latin American 'pink tide' back with a vengeance, what does this mean for Chile, the Continent and beyond - and what hope can we all draw from this huge triumph for the left?


We're joined by David Adler - General Coordinator of the Progressive International, which Boric is a member of - and Hassan live on the ground in Chile.


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0:00.0

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0:07.6

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0:39.5

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0:44.2

Not something we're accustomed to talking about, I'll be honest with you,

0:47.6

in the often dystopian hellscape that we have become all too accustomed to.

0:52.7

Here's my prop.

0:54.1

Chile. Now, look, it's nearly half a century after Augusto Pinochet overthrew the

1:00.7

democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende in a western-backed coup d'état,

1:07.5

which killed thousands of people. Henry Kissinger, the US president's

1:12.1

Nixon Secretary of State, had declared, I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a

1:17.0

country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.

1:22.4

Now, in that CIA backed, blood by thousands were killed and hundreds of

1:26.8

thousands were forced to leave the country. Amongst those refugees were

1:30.5

Chilean refugees taken by my own family in the 1970s in South Yorkshire.

1:35.8

One of those refugees, a woman, took her whole life.

1:38.9

This was a huge trauma for the Chilean people, which has endured its consequences

1:44.1

for half a century. Now, this weekend, the Chilean people have decisively voted

1:50.4

for the left-wing student leader, Gabriel Boric. I know his name, it's just I lost my

1:59.0

script entirely. Gabriel Boric in the presidential election,

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