The Other 9/11 [Film]

Chile 1975, Drowning Democracy

September 11, 1973. Chilean jets bomb the presidential palace. Salvador Allende, democratically elected, refuses to flee — helmet on, rifle in hand, addressing his nation on live radio.

The CIA had been working to bring him down since 1964. Nixon’s order: “Make the economy scream.”

William Colby, the CIA director who later testified to Congress about what the US had done in Chile, died under suspicious circumstances in 1996 — his body found on a riverbank that had already been searched.

This is the story of a democracy destroyed for copper, control, and Cold War paranoia. And the question it still asks: what if Allende had been left alone?