The Friends of Chile, An Evening With Salvador Allende Benefit Concert, on May 11, 1974, was one of the first to openly confront the intervention of the U.S. government in the military coup that had overthrown Salvador Allende a year earlier.
One tiny mark on a ballot, and then one more, and then yet another forged a better, luminous collective future.
"To see on a piece of paper, for example, the president of the United States ordering the C.I.A. to preemptively overthrow a democratically elected president in Chile is stunning..." Documented the U.S. role to overthrow the democratic government of Chile, and to support the fascist junta.
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