This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Suzy Weisman. Today we talk to veteran journalist Mark Cooper,

who was a translator to President Salvador Allende in the popular Unity government in Chile

from 1973. Mark has memorialized his experience in Chile in his book, Pinochet and Me, and he's

just returned from a month-long trip in Chile, looking at Chilean politics 50 years after

the coup, and one year since the new left-wing government of Gabriel Borich was elected in

a landslide. The first installment of Mark's writing on Chile went online, March 8th on

Truth Dig with more to come. There's a whole series of articles, a huge package, and it's called

Chile's utopia has been postponed. We get Mark Cooper's take on his trip to Chile in the first

installment of his articles to appear in truth dig.com. All this when our program returns in just a moment.

This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Suzy Weisman, and really pleased to have Mark Cooper with us today, veteran

journalist Mark Cooper, not any stranger to the airwaves. He was a translator to President Salvador

Allende in Chile in the popular Unity government from 1970 to 1973. Mark has memorialized his

experience in Chile in his book, Pinochet and Me, a Chilean anti-memory. That came out in 2001,

but still available, and a very good read. He just returned from a month in Chile looking at Chilean

politics 50 years after the coup, and one year since the new left-wing government of Gabriel Borich

was elected in a landslide. The first installment of Mark's writing on Chile went online,

March 8th International Women's Day on Truth Dig.com with more to come. The series of articles is

Chile's utopia has been postponed. On September 4th, 2022, Chile and Zelda referendum to approve or

reject the new progressive constitution, born in response to the massive social protest movement

and revolt of October 2019 just before the pandemic. The demand that grew out of that movement was

for a new constitution to replace the reactionary Pinochet constitution imposed in a fraudulent

plebiscite in 1980. We've covered this quite a lot on this program. A constituent assembly was

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