2023 will mark 50 years—a half century to date—since the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown. Lest We Forget To victims of the CIA sponsored Chilean coup d'état September 11, 1973: Harbor Grudge a crossing along a southern horse latitude— as twilight falls stern hopping noise suspended pungent heat subsiding stagnant air fill your lungs screw churning black pigmented swirling white water woe the hour of vengeance the stadium’s cadavers beseech a single glow of man-made light now joins my life to the land of your deaths to still unearthed graves I heard your mothers demanding their children ship to city disappearing and never the eternal shall rise my country employed the hands that murdered you unraveling night falls upon placid waters steaming into the starlight filtered immersed starkness vast open water compañeros Santiago, Chile 1976 Lest We Forgive To victims of U.S. Democracy across the Southern Cone of South America 1975 – 1985: In memory of a generation imprisoned, tortured, raped, robbed of life, children, the pursuit of happiness, by the government of the United States of America and its South American fascist allies. The Disappeared and The Missing: There is no relenting when you know your friends—mother, father, child, wife, husband, brother, sister—and comrades have been arrested, imprisoned, tortured, raped, murdered by the tens of thousands across eight countries directed by Operation Condor and their children kidnapped with the full knowledge and support of the government of the U.S. What is instigation and support of mass murder and human trafficking: crimes against humanity. A Personal Remembrance For successive generations to understand a generation of mainly young left-wing political activists and revolutionaries and the purpose of Victor Jara “scribbling” the lines of his last poem “Estadio Chile” before his death in the National Stadium: that fascism will ultimately fail. The voices of a generation who struggled for an equitable land have not been silenced or written out of history. Lest We Forget - Lest We Forgive - A Personal Remembrance. USA 2023
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2024 Commemoration Of Chile 1973:
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2023 will mark 50 years—a half century to date—since the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown. Lest We Forget To victims of the CIA sponsored Chilean coup d'état September 11, 1973: Harbor Grudge a crossing along a southern horse latitude— as twilight falls stern hopping noise suspended pungent heat subsiding stagnant air fill your lungs screw churning black pigmented swirling white water woe the hour of vengeance the stadium’s cadavers beseech a single glow of man-made light now joins my life to the land of your deaths to still unearthed graves I heard your mothers demanding their children ship to city disappearing and never the eternal shall rise my country employed the hands that murdered you unraveling night falls upon placid waters steaming into the starlight filtered immersed starkness vast open water compañeros Santiago, Chile 1976 Lest We Forgive To victims of U.S. Democracy across the Southern Cone of South America 1975 – 1985: In memory of a generation imprisoned, tortured, raped, robbed of life, children, the pursuit of happiness, by the government of the United States of America and its South American fascist allies. The Disappeared and The Missing: There is no relenting when you know your friends—mother, father, child, wife, husband, brother, sister—and comrades have been arrested, imprisoned, tortured, raped, murdered by the tens of thousands across eight countries directed by Operation Condor and their children kidnapped with the full knowledge and support of the government of the U.S. What is instigation and support of mass murder and human trafficking: crimes against humanity. A Personal Remembrance For successive generations to understand a generation of mainly young left-wing political activists and revolutionaries and the purpose of Victor Jara “scribbling” the lines of his last poem “Estadio Chile” before his death in the National Stadium: that fascism will ultimately fail. The voices of a generation who struggled for an equitable land have not been silenced or written out of history. Lest We Forget - Lest We Forgive - A Personal Remembrance. USA 2023