What happened on September 11?

Most people would answer: the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York. And they would be right. But, as it usually happens, the dark anniversaries go in pairs and we seem to remember the more recent or the one that is somehow closer to us. Or we seem to forget the one that is not commemorated enough...

On September 11 1973, general Augusto Pinochet overturned the democratically elected President of Chile, Salvador Allende the people's President. The dictator was backed by the US president Richard Nixon - a corporate president who instructed his intelligence services that 'an Allende regime in Chile would not be acceptable to the United States' and that they should 'prevent Allende from coming to power or unseat him' and who let the Chicago boys loose in what became one of the first neoliberal labs.