Chile’s 1973 Coup and Barack Obama’s Selective Memory on 9/11
‘Obama, referring to the military coup in Chile, stated in 2011 that we should not be “trapped by our history.”
At the September 11, 2016 ceremony, President Barack Obama remembered and honored the victims of terrorism. However, what was Obama’s position when he visited La Moneda in Chile in 2011, the presidential palace where the U.S.-organized military coup of September 11, 1973, took place?
Chile was the second leg of Obama’s March 2011 trip to Latin America. For the vast majority of people in Latin America, as well as many in North America and Europe, Chile invokes the atrocious events of 1973.’
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