A half-century after the Chilean coup of 1973 an eyewitness and participant in that traumatic history remembers. Marc Cooper, then an American in his early twenties, was the President of Chile Salvador Allende’s translator. In this podcast he remembers what he saw before, during and after the coup; his narrow escape; and the US role in Allende’s overthrow. Eyewitness testimony on an important but neglected moment in history.
The FRDH Podcast is hosted by internationally acclaimed journalist Michael Goldfarb and is about History. The History he has reported on; the History he has written about; and the long History he has lived.
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