Quick Glance: U.S. Triggers Chilean Coup with Unintended Consequences at Home
- Military jets bomb La Moneda presidential palace during the coup on September 11, 1973, in Santiago, Chile.
- President Salvador Allende commits suicide and General Augusto Pinochet begins a 17-year dictatorship.
- The coup in Chile leads to human rights concerns and Congress playing a larger role in U.S. foreign policy.
- In addition to ongoing propaganda efforts, the CIA meets with Chilean military contacts in a direct attempt to incite a coup to prevent an Allende presidency.
Quick Glance: Healthcare System in Ruins: Neglect and Corruption
- No Remedy: A broken public health system fosters neglect and corruption.
- Patients report bribery in public hospitals.
- Public hospitals have become unaffordable, overwhelming charities.
- Patient numbers increase with the collapse of the public healthcare system.
Quick Glance: Decline of Myanmar Football on and off the Field
- Under decades of military rule, Myanmar football experienced a decline from its glorious days in the 1960s.
- The modest progress made during the transition years was dramatically reversed by the pandemic and the coup.
- The economic crisis caused by the 2021 coup has further devastated the Myanmar league.
- The national team achieved success at the Asian Games and qualified for the Olympics.
Quick Glance: Forensic Investigation Confirms Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda Was Poisoned to Death Following the Pinochet Coup
- Pablo Neruda, Chile's Nobel poet laureate, diplomat, and leftist politician, died just days after Gen.
- "What does this mean?
- That Neruda was murdered, there was an action in 1973 by agents of the state."
- An international team of scientists declared in 2017 that they were "100% certain" Neruda did not die of cancer.
- Neruda, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 for "poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams," has been dubbed "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language" by Colombian novelist Gabriel Garca Márquez, also a Nobel laureate.
Quick Glance: 25 arrests in the German Reich citizenship scene - also in Austria
- According to Attorney General Peter Frank on Wednesday afternoon in Karlsruhe, eight of the suspects are currently in custody.
- According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, with the exception of a Russian woman, all individuals arrested were German nationals.
- The plan was to destabilize Germany from the right.
- In addition to firearms, detectives discovered documents for a right-wing coup.
Business is bad for Bagan’s buggy drivers. The COVID-19 pandemic and Myanmar’s 2021 military coup are keeping tourists away.
Quick Glance: The Myanmar junta has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to another six years in prison for corruption.
- Suu Kyi "was sentenced to three years imprisonment each for two corruption cases" in which she was accused of accepting payments from a businessman, according to the source, who added that the terms would be served concurrently.
- In the most recent allegation, the Nobel laureate, who has been held in military captivity since the night of the coup, was accused of accepting $550,000 in bribes from businessman Maung Weik.
- She is currently on trial for five further counts of corruption.
- A military television showed a video last year of Maung Weik alleging he had provided Suu Kyi $550,000 over several years.
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