Chile's journalists union kicked out a powerful media mogul for taking CIA propaganda cash
Chile's journalists union kicked out a powerful media mogul for taking CIA propaganda cash
Simeon Tegel
on Apr 24, 2015 @ 7:19 PM
LIMA, Peru — The US government's covert role in the brutal overthrow of President Salvador Allende — Chile's 9/11 — is angering Chileans once again.
On Tuesday, the national journalists association kicked out a prominent media mogul, Agustin Edwards. He's the 87-year-old owner and columnist of El Mercurio, a leading newspaper of record. His family's media group owns dozens of papers, magazines and other outlets.
Citing declassified US documents, the journalists group found that Edwards had taken CIA cash to smear Allende in the runup to the Sept. 11, 1973 military coup, in which the Chilean president died.
The ouster ushered in a 17-year-long, hard-right dictatorship under Gen. Augusto Pinochet, during which more than 2,000 people were murdered or “disappeared” for political reasons. In a statement, the association also accused Edwards of covering up the torture of two students by the dictatorship in the 1980s.
The association’s president, Javiera Olivares, said her pro-democracy group “is not willing to have members who have committed acts that made them complicit in such dark moments for Chile, of torture, detention and death.”
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