4 Things to Remember About Chile's 1973 Coup

[Judi Lynn]

47. The director,Costa-Gavras also made a movie regarding the US torturer, Dan Mitrione,"State of Siege"

which was immediately shunned and possibly blacklisted in the US when it came out, although it was widely received everywhere else.

Wikipedia:

The 1972 movie State of Siege by Costa-Gavras is based on the story of Mitrione's kidnapping.[18] The film was not available for home video in USA in a good-quality edition until late May 2015, when it was issued on standard and Blu-ray DVD by Janus Films/The Criterion Collection.

The kidnapping and the execution of Mitrione are also central to the plot of the novel El color que el infierno me escondiera by Uruguayan author Carlos Martinez.

More on US gov't torturer, Mitrione, at link.

Wiki info. on State of Siege:

The film opened to positive reviews from critics and is regarded as one of Costa-Gavras' finest works since the 1969 film Z. While it was released one year later in American theaters, a storm of controversy developed. Many U.S. officials hated the movie and even stated that it was a heap of lies about U.S. involvement in Latin America and other third world countries. In Washington, D.C., it was removed from a special screening at the John F. Kennedy Center,[1] only to be run uncut on a local TV station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Siege

The movie Missing was so well done. I still feel grief for the US American family just thinking about their suffering. Their ordeal was undoubtedly duplicated by the family of Frank Teruggi, Jr. , who was taken by Pinochet, too:

Arrest and death[edit]

On September 20, 1973, nine days after coup d'état, Frank Teruggi, in the same way as Charles Horman, was seized by Chilean military at his home and taken to the National Stadium in Santiago, which had been turned into an ad hoc concentration camp, where prisoners were interrogated and tortured and many were executed.

In the film Missing, by Costa-Gavras, Teruggi is depicted as a contributor for a small newspaper and friend of Charles Horman who had spoken with several US operatives that assisted the Chilean military government. The film alleges that Horman's discovery of US complicity in the coup led to his secret arrest, disappearance, and execution.

American complicity in the Chilean coup was later confirmed in documents declassified during the Clinton administration.The declassified documents mention Terrugi as one of the Chilean military executions and initially US embassy officials in Santiago released the false information that he had returned to the United States. His body was later found in a Chilean morgue among the "unidentified bodies" of the victims of the regime.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Teruggi

So much evil was implemented so long ago by people acting in the name of the US citizens. It has been a horrific story, and it's time people awakened and started informing themselves instead of allowing themselves to be lulled back to intellectual sleep by propaganda being spread by our corporate stenographers.

Everyone should really see Missing. It's impact will never be diminished by time.