Yesterday 11 September 2024 marked the 51th anniversary of the military coup that overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende in Chile. As I wrote in a post here two days ago:
That morning on 11 September 1973, British-made Hawker Hunter jets bombed La Moneda, Chile’s presidential palace, while tanks patrolled the surrounding streets of Santiago. The 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet is estimated to have murdered, tortured, or arbitrarily imprisoned up to 40,000 people. Like hundreds of thousands of others, my parents were forced to leave Chile after the coup and arrived in the UK as political refugees.
Yesterday an interview I did with former Labour Party MP Chris Williamson for his new online show 'Britain Unravelled' was released. The focus of the interview is the support the British government gave to the Pinochet dictatorship. In the interview I speak about Britain and the Other 9/11, the documentary about the UK and Chile I am working on with investigate journalist John McEvoy. I also speak about Mother, Country, my new documentary about my parent’s experience in Chile before and after the Pinochet coup.
You can watch the interview on YouTube here:
You can also watch the interview on Facebook and X (Twitter). You can listen to it as a podcast above.
Behind Chris, as well as his recent book ‘Ten Years Hard Labour’ there is the updated version of Victor Figueroa Clark’s political biography of Allende, ‘Chile's Allende: Life and Revolutionary Legacy’. Both books are worth a read.
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Follow the the production of ‘Britain and the Other 9/11’ here.
Upcoming ‘Mother, Country’ Screenings and Live Q&As
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