Chile searches for those missing from Pinochet dictatorship with the help of AI
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Still, Chile seems to be faring fairly well now, so good for them. I found Salvador Allende's final speech as the coup succeeded to be so inspiring for someone on the threshold of death as his democratic government was to be savaged by a military junta.
> Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again and free men will walk through them to construct a better society.
It was really something to see all this recent history of atrocity in a city and country that was otherwise fairly modern. What a tremendous use of this technology!
"It is really incredible that Pinochet escaped any punishment at all."
His sucessor, Carlos Pratts, wasn't onboard either, and knowing he was going to be killed, fled the country. He was killed anyways (after the coup).
His successor, Pinochet, agreed with the coup and executed it.
The president died during the coup, and the vice president (who fled the country), the successor for the president, was killed too.
There was a covert operation to purge any general against the idea of a coup, and the US was part of it. Decapitation.
He talks about this and what a fuck up that was and how those things came to be which if you have some spare time is worth checking out.
Some of the stuff he has to say about Iraq (around 1hr mark) where he was the chief of operations was fairly jaw dropping and the bush administration really has a lot to answer for.