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I'm also familiar with Victor Jara by a song by the Clash, "Washington Bullets" in which Joe Strummer pleads, "As every cell in Chile will tell/ The cries of the tortured men / Remember Allende, and the days before, Before the army came /Please remember Victor Jara, In the Santiago Stadium,

Es verdad - those Washington Bullets again"

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If only the true history were taught, no one would be shaming and rejecting immigrants trying to escape a land we destroyed

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Thank you🙏🏽

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Thank you for this history lesson.

It should be taught. Among the tragedies of our policies built by a soulless intellectual (I count McNamara here too) we are obliged by facts to shudder at the name Kissinger. Their saint was Machiavelli. The horror show that was Allende’s overthrow and the consequent massacre and Jara’s death has been long forgotten by most people.

It needs to be known and the tragedy be a lesson.

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