Hi, I'm Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, the climate crisis, the curtailment of reproductive

rights, authoritarianism. These threats aren't looming. They're here now. If you believe

Democracy Now is reporting on these issues as essential, please sign up for a monthly

gift of $5, $10, or even $20. Go to democracynow.org to make your donation right away. Oh, and your

gift will be matched $1 for $1 by a generous donor. Thank you so much.

From New York, this is Democracy Now. Latino history is American history. And to tell that

full story and so full history, we take knowledge or colonial past.

As the nation marks Hispanic Heritage Month, we look at a brewing controversy over the creation

of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino. We'll speak to two historians who

have been hired to create a temporary exhibition about Latino civil rights of the 1960s.

But the museum showed the exhibit after coming under criticism by conservative Latinos.

Instead, the museum is now working on an exhibit about salsa music. But first,

Chilean President Gabriel Bortich made a historic trip to Washington, D.C. over the weekend

to mark the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Baku in Chile. Bortich visited the site in

Washington, D.C. where in 1976, agents of the Pineshade Dictatorship assassinated the former Chilean

diplomat, Orlando Letelier, and his colleague Ronnie Moffitt of the Institute for Policy Studies.

And when some people dare to ask the victims to silence their grief, to turn the page,

I would humbly like to tell them, having spoken to many of those victims, that this reconciliation

is only possible with truth and justice, not with forgetting. We'll speak to Orlando Letelier's

son Juan Pablo Letelier, a former state senator in Chile. He's just returned to Santiago from

Washington, D.C., all that and more. Coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

...