The other 9/11

Canada had much to learn from the tragedy that took place in Chile on Sept. 11, 1973. Entire government policies and wide public acceptance have been built on some of those lessons, while others may not have been learned at all.

The full force of opinion and propaganda that came directly from sources such as Henry Kissinger, right, and the U.S. White House made Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s, second left, 1973 coup appear necessary, writes Jim Creskey. Photograph courtesy of the Chilean Ministry of Exterior Relations archives

Opinion

BY JIM CRESKEY

September 11, 2023

OTTAWA—“So far from God, so close to the United States,” is the lament attributed to Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz, but the reality is that every country in the western hemisphere—not just Mexico and Canada—are, for better and worse, “so close to the United Stat...

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