Jacobin Radio: The Chilean Coup, 50 Years Later (Part 2)

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Suzi talks to journalist Marc Cooper, Salvador Allende's former translator, for part two of our commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile. Marc returned to Chile for a month this year to probe what has and has not changed in 50 years, and to understand why the new leftist millennial government of Gabriel Boric is having such a hard time. His multipart series for Truthdig, "Chile's Utopia Has Been Postponed," features articles, photo essays, interviews and discussions looking at the ways Pinochet's legacy continues to haunt Chile. Chilean society is once again deeply polarized, with up to 40% of the population saying the coup was a good thing. Was Allende’s Popular Unity government from 1970-1973 a stab at utopia that has been postponed, or was the trauma inflicted by the Pinochet years so deep as to cancel future attempts at a more just and profoundly democratic social order? You can read Marc's personal testimony, evoking the atmosphere and strategic debates within the left before the coup d'état in Jacobin America Latina, also part of our discussion.

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0:00.0	This is Jacobin Radia, I'm Suzy Weisman, journalist Mark Cooper joins us for part two
0:29.2	of our commemoration of the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile in a wide-ranging conversation
0:36.4	about the other 9-11, a ghost story. That's the latest entry to Mark's multi-part dig
0:42.4	on Chile. It's called Utopia post-polling featuring articles, photo essays, interviews, and discussions.
0:49.6	Mark returned to Chile for a month this year to probe what has and has not changed in 50
0:54.5	years and to understand why the new leftist millennial government of Gabriel Borich is having
0:59.6	such a hard time. Chilean society is once again deeply polarized with up to 40% of the population
1:06.5	saying the coup was a good thing. Was a Yenday's popular unity government from 1970s to 1973 a
1:14.1	stab at Utopia that has been postponed or was the trauma inflicted by the pinnishae years so deep
1:21.3	as to cancel future attempts at a more just and profoundly democratic social order.
1:26.7	The interview had to be cut to fit this hour but you'll be able to hear it in full
1:31.5	on Jacobin Radio later this week. Google it. We'll get Mark's views on our program returns in just a moment.
1:52.0	This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Suzy Weisman. Today we're going to continue our series marking the 50th
1:59.5	anniversary of the coup in Chile. That's the September 11th 1973 coup d'etat that destroyed
2:06.4	150 years of Chilean democracy and the dream of a better Chile. It's hard to believe that it's
2:12.8	50 years since pinnishae seized power promising to rid Chile of the Marxist cancer forever.
2:20.6	In part one of our series we spoke to Oscar Mendoza about what was destroyed 50 years ago and
2:26.5	the three-year experiment in radical democracy of the popular unity government led by President
2:32.4	Salvador Yenday that posited a peaceful transition to socialism. I'll let Chilena with
2:39.4	Dino Tinto, Red Wine and empanadas using the ballot box and constitutional means to achieve
2:46.0	profound economic social and political transformations that working people demanded making its
2:52.2	blueprint based on the country's history and political traditions. Today we're going to talk to
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