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Judi Lynn

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2. I read before he was murdered, he wrote more songs and smuggled them out
Sat Oct 14, 2023, 04:29 PM
Oct 2023

of the stadium to his wife.

He had to be incredibly courageous. I doubt many people could have managed to live on through the stories of surviving prisoners as Jara did.

What a shame knowing U.S. taxpayers' money was actually spent on supporting and protecting the vicious dictator Pinochet. Richard M. Nixon, his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, and the C.I.A. did it, while "making the economy scream" so the Chilean people would want to get rid of their elected President Allende.

The entire story MUST be known, fully illuminated, and repudiated some day before this country's history can be clean, along with so many other atrocities. It takes courage to seek the truth, and we have examples all around of us of how many people think it's worth the effort, regardless of the monsters who steer the ship sometimes.

Thank you, Beakybird.

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