This date has been changed the course of the international history in the last 3 decades. A year ago a group of aero-hackers crashed the twin towers and the Pentagon. Possibly the Islamic fundamentalists who perpetrated this slaughter not noticed that exactly 28 years before the main headquarters of another South American country had been attacked from the air. The Government Palace in Santiago was destroyed in 1973. Such action was not made by foreign pilots but by some armed forces which had been underpinned by the CIA, the Intelligence Agency of the same superpower that would suffer the macro-atentado of 2001. On 11 September 1973, as well as the 2001 world order is altered. On September 11, 1973 in this day became endpoint the first experiment of constitutional Government of pro-Soviet parties in the West. Despite the fact that the Chilean Popular unity manifested subjected to the system of representative capitalist democracies sponsored by Washington, the U.S.
Administration considered intolerable. Before the coup of Augusto Pinochet left had grown electorally and had a climate of social tension. American Chancellor Henry Kissinger argued that it could not accept a people by ignorance affronted Communist. The Estero cuartelazo served to demonstrate that the main Western power could not tolerate non-conformist Governments although they were elected under universal suffrage. Furthermore encouraged the consolidation or extension of the anti-Communist dictatorships in the Southern Cone.
The new regime established on September 11, 1973 would be the same that would initiate the current economic model that would eventually establish itself as fashion during globalization. Recipe Pinochet was to renounce the old system of Keynesian economics, which protected the industry and internal market, that promoted development seeking to replace the importances and rising consumption by increasing the level of income of the population. For the Chicago school was imposed to give way to an open economy to imports and the free flow of capital overseas.