9/11: The Day Everything Changed, in Chile

Associated Press
Military jets bombed the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, in the 1973 coup against President Salvador Allende’s government.
By ARIEL DORFMAN
Published: September 7, 2013
IF I am alive today, if 40 years later I am able to tell the story of the Chilean coup of Sept. 11, 1973, it is thanks to the blind generosity of my friend Claudio Jimeno.
I remember him now as I saw him then, when I said goodbye without knowing it was goodbye, not knowing he would soon be dead and I would survive, neither of us knowing that the military would kill him instead of me.
Claudio and I met in 1960 as freshmen at the Universidad de Chile, where his toothy grin and shock of black hair had earned him…
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