Remembering Kissinger's Victims

[Judi Lynn]

December 6, 2023

Joe Bader recalls Charles Horman, Frank Teruggi, Ronni Moffit and Orlando Letelier — all killed by the Kissinger-Nixon backed Chilean military junta that overthrew the Allende government.



General Augusto Pinochet, left, greeting Henry Kissinger in 1976. (Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

By Joe Bader
Common Dreams

Historian Greg Grandin, in his 2015 biography of Henry Kissinger, estimated that Kissinger’s policies were responsible for 3-to-4 million deaths around the world — from Vietnam to Pakistan, to Indonesia, to Chile, to southern Africa, to the Middle East.
Grandin’s damning indictment against the former U.S. national security adviser and secretary of state is powerful and overwhelming.

But large numbers like 3 to 4 million mask the very real pain, terror and tragedy suffered by those individuals and their families. Look at the cases of Charles Horman, Frank Teruggi and Ronni Moffit.

All three were Americans killed by the Chilean military junta backed by Kissinger and Nixon that overthrew the democratically-elected socialist government of Salvador Allende.

Horman and Teruggi were journalists in Chile in 1973 when the coup happened. They were taken to the infamous National Stadium in Santiago where they were executed along with thousands of Chileans. Their story was painfully yet meaningfully represented in the 1982 film Missing with Jack Lemon and Sissy Spacek.

More:
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/06/remembering-kissingers-victims/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=b82bc7f3-7950-4e85-9f29-556d324e5691

[Easterncedar]

1. I'd rec this a thousand times if I could

Americans love to think of ourselves as the good guys, but we have done and continue to do much evil in the world. Kissinger’s much vaunted “pragmatism” makes me sick with shame and rage.