tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4122455912973600650.post97058661271251865..comments2021-07-07T11:13:54.534-05:00Comments on Our Family Adventure: Chile's 9/11Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482843606712445763noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4122455912973600650.post-11165431090980706322011-09-13T14:01:38.754-05:002011-09-13T14:01:38.754-05:00@Kris, sounds super interesting. We'll have t...@Kris, sounds super interesting. We'll have to check it out. Thanks for the heads up. @Annie- Dano posted this one, but it was sobering sitting around with friends talking about where we were on 9/11/01 or 9/11/73. I don't remember all the details of Steve's lecture, but I remember the feeling of it and its been so incredibly interesting to learn anew about the period. What's really incredible is that Chile is still grappling with so much of that history and the economic and political structures that were enacted under Pinochet. It feels like very recent history. @Uncle Dan - may it be so.Lojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06979028769176380872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4122455912973600650.post-16976033097983205562011-09-13T10:26:03.161-05:002011-09-13T10:26:03.161-05:00Allende was a martyr in the battle to bring commun...Allende was a martyr in the battle to bring communism to the Americas. Nixon $ Co. succeeded in killing Allende, but the long battle process seems to be producing a palatable form of socialism, free of military domination, for the western hemisphere. A detente seems to be gaining momentum with the waning of Cuban emigree influence on US politics, the fragmentation of the American right into goofy splinters such as the Tea Party, a quiet groundswell of American support for liberal causes, and, oddly enough, the influence of Latin America --- especially The Dominican Republic --- on American baseball. The trend is hopeful, and people to people exchanges, such as yours, Laura, Dan, Grace and Theo, are in the vanguard. Good work.<br /><br />Uncle Dan RogersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4122455912973600650.post-13856514942315440542011-09-13T02:36:22.150-05:002011-09-13T02:36:22.150-05:00Thanks for this post Jo. I remember Papa Volk'...Thanks for this post Jo. I remember Papa Volk's class on what happened so clearly - I think he talked about things like stores running out of toothpaste in the panic. Sending you all lots of hugs.anniez-khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03772910307893968729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4122455912973600650.post-3873966831871334822011-09-12T10:03:58.217-05:002011-09-12T10:03:58.217-05:00Interestingly Jeff and I spent the eve of 9/11 wat...Interestingly Jeff and I spent the eve of 9/11 watching "Blame it on Fidel", which despite the title, is a French movie which ends with the coup in chile. It was French so no mention of USA.. Most interesting point was when girl trying to understand her parents new political action was acused by her father of confusing acting like a sheep with group solidarity, and the girl asks, "can you always tell the difference?Krishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09433049164131612799noreply@blogger.com