The
record that you have now in your hands is a historical document of great
importance and, for that reason, must be knowed for every citizen concerned
about the matters in his fatherland.
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The
official history is made over the base that the victorius wish bequeath
to the posterity. But that purpose is relativized by the efforts of others
that narrate the history of the victims and the episodies that the murderers
wish to hide. In this effort participate historians, journalists, artists,
editors and many other people sensitized by some historical fact.
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In
this case, a citizen could interfere and record, understanding the importance
of that interference, the communication among the high chiefs of the Armies
on the tuesday 11th of september of 1973, day of the militar coup that
ends the government of the President Salvador Allende.
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you have this record in your hands. Hearing it will allow you obtain your
own conclusions. The contents of the phrases, the tone of the voices, the
language that ones and others uses revealed their personalities, fears
and angers, their states of mind.
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The
transcript record you will found it since the fourth chapter, so you will
can follow it word by word. Previous to the transcription, I include a
narration in relation to the gestation of the militar coup, and the things
happenned in the scenaries where the President Salvador Allende moves in
their latest hours with life.
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When
we achieve a quart of century since these matters that gave a violent overturn
to the history of Chile, trying to reflexionate around these facts is a
civical duty. Its necesary talk about it with the sons and grandsons. Open
the mind and the heart to reach the bottom of the facts, understanding
the own feelings and trying to understand what the others felt. So we will
can, as nation, recognize the odiosities that remains ambushed ans try
a honest tour for the forgiveness path, with the compromise of no repite
a tragedy that cost so many lives and pain.
Patricia
Verdugo - Santiago of Chile, 1998