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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  • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    That makes me suspicious of a couple of my own posts 🤨 I think a couple of my posts were upvoted mysteriously even after they were taken down (one post when from 43 -> 51 after being deleted)

    At the time I thought people were just reading the mod log and clicking the link, but some weird upvote storms now make sense.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      one post when from 43 -> 51 after being deleted

      Oh my god do they still all go up at once or in big numbers like that, our wreckers are very unsophisticated

      But seriously I don't think it's to do with the current struggle session as the first accounts were created over a month ago, well before any changes in site policy

      Also I have a "fat finger" do I often upvote posts from the modlog by accident. Have accidentally upvoted some really sus stuff when browsing though it before. Not that your posts are sus or anything, just saying that double tapping on a phone is pretty easy.

      • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        It happened in a 1 hour time period but it was still weird af dunno maybe just reading too much into it.

        But seriously I don’t think it’s to do with the current struggle session as the first accounts were created over a month ago, well before any changes in site policy

        Ehhh its a possibility that they had then on stand by for stuff like this