Salvador Allende’s Final Speech

[Judi Lynn]

Salvador Allende’s Final Speech
Daniel Boyle · September 11, 2013

Salvador Allende made his last presidential speech, broadcast by Radio Magallanes at 9:10 on the morning of September 11, 1973, as the Chilean presidential palace was attacked.

My friends,

Surely this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air Force has bombed the towers of Radio Portales and Radio Corporación.

My words do not have bitterness but disappointment. May they be a moral punishment for those who have betrayed their oath: soldiers of Chile, titular commanders in chief, Admiral Merino, who has designated himself Commander of the Navy, and Mr. Mendoza, the despicable general who only yesterday pledged his fidelity and loyalty to the Government, and who also has appointed himself Chief of the Carabineros [national police].

Given these facts, the only thing left for me is to say to workers: I am not going to resign!

Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever.

They have strength and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested neither by crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.

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http://www.ilovechile.cl/2013/09/11/salvador-allendes-final-speech/91658

[SamKnause]

1. Final speech

Thanks for posting Judi.

My country's government is evil.

There is no kind way to say it.

They are pure evil.

It is beyond my comprehension that Henry Kissinger was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. President Obama certainly did not deserve the award either. That award has become meaningless.

I feel as if I live in bizarro world.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's getting more crowded, too, as US Americans learn the truth!

It's a victory every time a citizen catches the rare, unexpected fact and follows it to discover the deeper truth which our corporate media has been hiding, whitewashing, burying, or even lying about, flat out, for ages!

What a joke we are learning has been perpetrated on us, when we arrive at a place to discover that the "news" media can be counted on to tell us everything BUT the truth!

Some things we have to look for ourselves. That takes somewhat longer!