On this day in 1973, following the fascist coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende, American journalist and documentary filmmaker Charles Horman was executed in the National Stadium concentration camp in Santiago.

Horman was born in New York City on May 15th, 1942, graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1960 and Harvard in 1964. He was an active anti-war protester, present at the 1968 DNC protests and producing an award winning documentary titled "Napalm". He also worked as an investigative journalist for publications such as The Nation and The Christian Science Monitor.

In December 1971, Charles and his wife Joyce left the U.S. for Latin America, eventually settling down in Santiago, Chile, where he worked as a freelance writer.

On September 11th, 1973, fascists led by Augusto Pinochet and the CIA ousted democratically elected Marxist President Salvador Allende. In the following weeks, many prominent left-wing activists, such as Flora Sanhueza, Victor Jara, and Frank Teruggi, were arrested and killed.

Horman himself was arrested on September 16th, seized from his home by Chilean soldiers and taken to the National Stadium, which had been turned into a de facto concentration camp following the coup. There, Horman was executed on September 19th, 1973.

Documents declassified by the Clinton administration in 1999 indicate the U.S. knew of Horman's plight but initially obfuscated investigations into his death. They also indicated that it was unlikely Horman would have been killed without the knowledge and permission of the CIA.

In June 2014, a Chilean court ruled that U.S. authorities had played a "fundamental" role in Horman's murder. In January 2015, two former Chilean intelligence officials were sentenced to jail in Chile for the murders of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, another American activist who was also arrested, executed the following day.

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  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    Learned that there is a company here that runs a service that automatically scans all court decisions for decisions regarding involuntary psychiatric care or drug addiction, and compiles that for other companies to be able to weed out anyone who has ever had to receive this care. (These court decisions are public for anyone to find technically, but as a private person you would have to be aware of the specific court that passed the judgement to even request access to it, this service allows employers to just search names in a database).

    Theres a guy in the news for having applied to over 400 jobs and always hitting a roadblock late on in the process where regardless of positivity from the recruiters, they ended up stonewalling and ghosting him, turns out he was in this registry for having been in involuntary care once. Such a fucking cruel and dehumanizing service to be running, literally just creating a vicious cycle where you can never dig your way out of a hole once you have received the black mark of mental health problems once in your life.

    The Authority for Privacy Protection recently ordered this company to cease publicising court decisions in this manner, but the fucking slime scum piece of shit chairman of this company went out whining about how this is "censorship" and actually his service for companies to discriminate against anyone who hasnt lived the perfect normal life is on the same level as journalism, and operates under freedom of the press. Absolute fucking ghoulish monster, disservice to humanity that he gets to walk the streets like a normal person.

    Edit: Searched the name of their chairman, fucking former Moderate party politician, the ones who are likely to get a prime minister position in coalition with the fascists now. They may not be socdems but goddamn their name is spot on.

    Also, a freemason 👁️ 👁️ 👁️