Realidades; Chile - A Special Report

Thirteen WNET · December 1973

Jose Garcia interviewed Salvador Allende at the United Nations in New York, before the coup. Footage coming from Chile through Argentina added after that fateful day in September 1973. Roundtable discussion of people that had just come back from being incarcerated in Santiago de Chile, a Baptist minister, a physics professor from Catholic University, and Andres Rojas, the press relations officer of the Chilean embassy representing Allende in Washington. The Pinochet government was invited to join the roundtable and agreed but backed out shortly before airtime. Jose Iglesias, who was a Latin American reporter for the New York Times, and wrote a piece about Allende, moderated the discussion.