Other 9/11: Free YouTube videos to understand the Chilean tragedy

Peace is usually associated September 11 is the dramatic tragedy of the attack on the Twin Towers. in New York, and of course that 2001 changed everything forever, but long before that there was another 9/11 that marked democracy in the context of the Cold War: in 1973, military forces overthrew the Moneda Palace in Chile to President Salvador Allende.

It marks a milestone for Latin America and the world as it turns 50 and shows how murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet established one of the darkest totalitarian regimes in history.

To understand what happened in Chile on that day, September 11, we leave you with several YouTube recordings that can be watched for free, mostly documentaries about the attack on the Government Palace, as well as recordings from world television such as the BBC and others. occurred at the National Stadium in Santiago or the murder of singer, songwriter and musician Victor Jara.

Documentary film “Hawker Hunter. The noise of silence”

TVN, Chilean public television, premieres this audiovisual production of 10 years of investigative journalism revealing unknown details of the air mission that bombed La Moneda 50 years ago.

National Stadium

Documentary filmmaker Carmen Luz Paro provides a valuable historical account of what happened at Santiago’s National Stadium, which was turned into a political prison camp.

How Chilean television covered September 11, 1973 live.

Recording of Channel 13 of the Catholic University of Chile.

BBC trip to Chile after the coup against Allende

“A few months after the coup d’état which saw Augusto Pinochet overthrow the government of Salvador Allende in Chile, a team from BBC Panorama traveled to the country to document the situation in the country. This valuable historical material, taken from the BBC archives, reflects the Chilean reality at the beginning of the military dictatorship, which subsequently lasted 17 years, claiming more than 40,000 victims, including 3,000 dead or missing.

Santiago: the first days after the coup

“A few days after the 1973 coup d’état, a French television team produced a report on what was happening in Santiago. The color note included some of the first images of Pablo Neruda’s funeral and the situation at the National Stadium. “It was shown on the central French public television news program on October 3 of that year.”

Special report | 50 years later: where are they?

Report from National Television of Chile: “In this special report, a team led by journalist Paz Montenegro traced the trajectory of 89 boxes of human bones that could match the country’s missing detainees who have been in detention for 22 years. by the Department of Forensic Medicine of the University of Chile and the Legal Medical Service without classification or identification.

Battle of Chile

Documentary in three parts by Patricio Guzman. A vision and historical-graphic overview of the events that occurred from the moment Salvador Allende came to power until his fall.