The Daily Populous Tuesday November 4th, 2025 night edition
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ChronosBlitz on November 3rd, 2025 at 18:07 UTC »

“Remember, one must first get behind someone in order to stab them in the back.”

chipskylark123 on November 3rd, 2025 at 18:23 UTC »

His final words were haunting. Broadcast over the radio as the military was closing in. So relevant today with the situation in the US. It is much longer than this, but my favorite except:

“Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have strength and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested neither by crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.”

ModenaR on November 3rd, 2025 at 18:27 UTC »

> The most prevalent forms of state-sponsored torture that Chilean prisoners endured were electric shocks, waterboarding, beatings, and sexual abuse. Another common mechanism of torture employed was "disappearing" those who were deemed to be potentially subversive because they adhered to leftist political doctrines. The tactic of "disappearing" the enemies of the Pinochet regime was systematically carried out during the first four years of military rule. The "disappeared" were held in secret, subjected to torture and were often never seen again. Both the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture (Valech Report) and the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Report) approximate that there were around 30,000 victims of human rights abuses in Chile, with 40,018 incidents of torture and 2,279 executed