And we elected a socialist president that represented a coalition of parties of the left and the center, Salvador Allende. ISABEL ALLENDE: Well, Chile had been the longest and most solid democracy in the continent. Describe what happened and how you saw your country change.
On another September 11th, 1973, you were there, in Chile, in your country. But we also wanted to talk, since we haven’t spoken on the show since President Trump came to power-I actually wanted to start not here in the U.S., but in Chile. You have a new book out, In the Midst of Winter, which actually is based here in New York-in Brooklyn, to be exact. ISABEL ALLENDE: It’s always great to be here, Amy.ĪMY GOODMAN: We have a lot to talk about.
And, of course, you cannot understand how a country like the United States participated so openly in a military coup like the one that happened in Chile.ĪMY GOODMAN: We are joined by Isabel Allende in our studio.
They speak of everything that was the CIA operation, in its moment, in 1970, with the knowledge of Nixon and Henry Kissinger, to keep Allende from assuming the presidency of the republic. This is the museum director, Javier Estévez. Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Council, Federal Bureau of Investigation, White House and State Department. “Secrets of the State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship” features declassified documents from the U.S. Isabel Allende would later flee from her native Chile to Venezuela.ĪMY GOODMAN: Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights recently opened a new exhibit documenting the United States’ intervention in the coup. Salvador Allende died in the palace that day. Her father’s first cousin was Salvador Allende, Chile’s president from 1970 until the September 11th, 1973, coup, when Augusto Pinochet seized power in a CIA-backed military coup. She was born, though, in Peru in 1942 and traveled the world as the daughter of a Chilean diplomat.
Her books have been translated into 35 languages, sold over 57 million copies around the world. Her latest is a novel titled In the Midst of Winter, a love story that still manages to explore the issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees. She’s the author of 23 books, including The House of the Spirits, Paula, Daughter of Fortune. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We spend the rest of the hour with Isabel Allende, one of Latin America’s and the United States’s greatest novelists.
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