The Cloaked Hand: American Interventionism in Chile

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This documentary was produced as part of my history dissertation at the University of Bristol. It aims to investigate the question of US intervention in Chile from 1960-1973, and subsequently shed light on a topic that has had very little public understanding and engagement.
It focuses in on the decline of Chilean democracy in the 1970s and the demise of the Allende government, and attempts to parse the voluminous historiography on both sides of the aisle that either assert US involvement or deny it.
The companion website to this documentary is available below:
www.dropbox.com/s/uf0jy9zz90x...
Here you will find the sources used, interviews with historians on the background of US interventionism and the character of the successive Pinochet regime, as well as the script in it's entirety as well as a portion of my dissertation research journal.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:45 - An Empire of Intervention
5:39 - The Cloaked Hand
8:21 - The Scramble
11:01 - The Schneider Affair
13:02 - Assisted Suicide
19:12 - Allende's Missteps
20:47 - Conclusions
The visuals or audio herein may not be utilised to train a machine learning algorithm of any kind without express permission of the Copyright holder (IMPERIAL)

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@skyfish8781 3 жыл бұрын

Commenting for the algorithm to boost this great work

@IMPERIALYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@spary5751 Жыл бұрын

Not a bad idea

@azypk Жыл бұрын

You

@azypk Жыл бұрын

Deserve

@azypk Жыл бұрын

One

@weon_absoluto 2 жыл бұрын

As a Chilean im always happy when someone takes a look at our history, and from once im glad it isnt someone who glorifies Allendes goverment or the dictatorship, Chile right now has a problem where they treat Allende or Pinoceht( depending on party) as a all knowing hero of the nation and that is just bs

@bellairefondren7389 11 ай бұрын

IMPERIAL's video doesn't portray Allende or Pinochet as "two sides of the same coin" notably.

@gabrieltenguan4470 10 ай бұрын

We faced similar issues in Brazil with the rising far right lead by Bolsonaro and his supporters. He praises dictators from our past as heroes and completely subordinated to the US "guidelines" for Latin countries, thus basically scrapping and selling every asset possible for the lowest imaginable amount of money. Our national Petrol company was probably one of the biggest hits. Loads of money into dividends and mass sale of assets, which we then rented for more in short term than we sold it for lol, all that with minimal productive investments and reinvestment in tech and development. It's been dark times for us latins, the more unstable Latin America is, the better for the Northern powers

@vulpes7079 10 ай бұрын

@@bellairefondren7389both bad, but one was clearly much, much worse

@moosesandmeese969 9 ай бұрын

@@vulpes7079 Trying to reduce poverty and give education is bad apparently

@vulpes7079 9 ай бұрын

@@moosesandmeese969 "God forbid women do anything"

@Tmontealegre 3 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Chile, this is one of the best depictions of the process that I have seen. Thank You!

@Kurotaisa 4 ай бұрын

As a Chilean, I appreciate that you're pronouncing the Chilean tendency to say CH like it was SH

@fuckdefed Ай бұрын

Where does he do this? He doesn’t say ‘shee-lay’ for Chile.

@vianabdullah2837 Жыл бұрын

Hard to believe that a channel with such high quality videos has not blown up yet. On a sidenote, your accent is quite fascinating, a mix of British and American pronunciations.

@Kronos_LordofTitans Жыл бұрын

That is pretty common among European English speakers. A lot of us learn the language from movies and social media so we pick up elements from both Brits and Yanks.

@gabrieltenguan4470 10 ай бұрын

@@Kronos_LordofTitans that's true for most non native speakers who got a nice touch with Brits English IMHO. I'm Brazilian and started learning the Brit, but by media I developed a mixed accent with some elements from US, Brit, Australian and some Slavic countries (limited to words where a heavy Russian like R can be pronounced like Right, I know it's weird AF, it's involuntary 99% of the time)

@Simp_Zone 5 ай бұрын

He's just English bro.

@christycullen2355 4 ай бұрын

@@Simp_Zonehe's Swiss

@br0k3nman 10 ай бұрын

I’ve been watching your whole catalog, your production quality and research quality are insane… how have you not blown up!?

@onurturhal6814 5 ай бұрын

Honestly I'm asking the same

@feastguy101 2 ай бұрын

It’s probably because he’s biased af. His video about Spain was disgusting in it’s partisanship. He’s always available to whitewash the crimes of the left.

@IMPERIALYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you to everyone for watching! I hope you enjoyed it - check out the companion website that hosts all of the sources for this video if you're interested in researching a bit further on this topic! - IMPERIAL www.dropbox.com/s/uf0jy9zz90xl4hr/Chile%20Documentary%20Script%201.docx?dl=0

@Zilero 2 жыл бұрын

The link says “Website Expired” :(

@ElvingsMusings 2 жыл бұрын

So Allende's problem was that he believed in democracy and rule of law and that made him unfit to be a leader? Are you that much of a psychopath to make that claim?

@IMPERIALYT 2 жыл бұрын

@Jack Elving No, the claim is that he didn’t commit fully to either constitutionalism or authoritarianism, which meant that he was unable to achieve a stable leadership through either. His attempts at implementing revolution through the constitution were not working, so he employed tactics such as property seizures that were unconstitutional - which were highly unpopular with the opposition. And vice-versa, he refused to act against his opposition militarily. This does not mean that I believe his adherence to democracy meant he was unfit to be leader, just that he was not assertive enough in either categories of constitutionalism or authoritarianism and that meant he was vulnerable to internal opposition eroding his presidency. I am not making a value judgment on Allende, I am only saying that for him it would have been easier to deal with dissent with the butt of a rifle, as Castro had recommended, but he did not. As such, he tried to do it the legitimate way through democracy, but he couldn’t really commit, which made his presidency more unpopular and made his leadership confused and unmoored. His own strategies were also not effective at placating the opposition, and he became quite detached from the political realities of Chile later into his presidency, which made his decision making even less targeted and impactful, even his Chief Military Advisor Carlos Prats believed this. I hope this clarifies my argument. I do not wish to cast aspersions at Allende, personally I think the decision to try and do it democratically was the right thing to do. That does not mean given the context it was the decision that had the highest likelihood of success.

@IMPERIALYT 2 жыл бұрын

@@Zilero Hi there Zilero - I will reactivate the website so that you are able to view the sources.

@ElvingsMusings 2 жыл бұрын

@@IMPERIALYT I thank you for your thoughtful response. I remain unconvinced though. Intentionally or not, your Realpolitik-lens holds is either tacitly condoning American interventionism as a legitimate action (because as your video makes clear, US interventionism was a decisive factor in his downfall) or alternatively that revolutionary dictatorship is the only alternative. There's no sense of any alternative to Allende's actions in your video outside this framework or binary.

@ultimathule100 2 ай бұрын

Este es el segundo video que veo de tu canal; la calidad de la producción y la investigación son la norma. Gracias por tu esfuerzo, no sé por qué no tienes más suscriptores.

@astrumespanol 2 жыл бұрын

Great documentary with great visuals and narration. Keep going. You will have hundreds of thousands of views

@ForTheCultureGuyana Жыл бұрын

The quality of your videos are amazing and the information is on point. Why hasn't this channel blown up yet?

@dankwarmouse6248 3 жыл бұрын

This has some amazing production quality. Are you just one person?

@cumhugs 3 жыл бұрын

Chinese government

@IMPERIALYT 3 жыл бұрын

Yep! I completed it over a course of 2 months of editing & about 3 months of research

@sebahernandezg 3 жыл бұрын

@@IMPERIALYT what video edit software did you use?

@82892869hi 3 жыл бұрын

@@cumhugs don’t be stupid.

@IMPERIALYT 3 жыл бұрын

@@sebahernandezg I used a combination of After Effects and Premiere Pro! (Also a little bit of Cinema 4D)

@isaacw.7523 10 ай бұрын

Awesome channel. Glad I found it very underrated and should be more popular

@derekjensen9894 2 жыл бұрын

Whatever you do keep making these videos this was incredible and even more so for such a small channel

@ludwig112 2 жыл бұрын

Your content is amazing! i hope you the best and let's hope this blow up :)

@purplepioneer5644 Жыл бұрын

Great work. You’ve taught me a lot that I didn’t even know and I thought I knew quite a bit about the situation.

@craneoflores 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic quality, and very well researched. Thanks for this video

@user-fc7is6jo2e 5 ай бұрын

Outstanding presentation! Thank you for sharing this.

@julienchatard4701 3 жыл бұрын

Este documental es increible, ¡viva Chile!

@shamikghosh7197 Жыл бұрын

Looking at the comment "Commenting for the algorithm to boost the great work" made me comment as well, you deserve millions of subscribes for the work you do and the effort you put into your videos

@emanueldobos8452 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, excellent research and presentation. Please can you make sure the music doesn’t drown out your voice when mixing the intro? Otherwise, this is brilliant

@change_your_oil_regularly4287 Жыл бұрын

Commenting as this channel should be pushed by the algorithm

@ravioli-45 10 ай бұрын

Your entire channel has insane production quality, your style reminds me of Hitman 2's cutscenes, and all your videos are really interesting, I hope you enjoy making them :)

@SinNombreYQueWea 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing work, thank you for this.

@user-mn3ez2yl3u 10 ай бұрын

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@m1l3s27 Жыл бұрын

Great content. Keep this stuff up man.

@bobathicc5689 2 жыл бұрын

This channel is underrated af

@JoeMitchell2 10 ай бұрын

This is excellent work. Bravo.

@OneFlyingTonk Жыл бұрын

Amazing video, most people here do oversimplify things like US involvement and Allende's idealism, which you have talked about in detail here. Kudos to you!

@devonriley3275 Ай бұрын

Great job with this, wverything was explained so well.

@oliverpapai6011 5 ай бұрын

dude you are the most severely underrated youtuber like ever, this video having A MERE 86K VIEWS ON IT IS CRIMINAL, you deserve several millions at least! Seeing content, which is dwarfed compared to yours by terms of quality and amount of work, get 1000times more views is the real evidence youtube does not want good content to spread. Maybe ur name is fucking with the algoríthm but dont change it, your name is your identity and its a cool one imo

@Yak9741 11 ай бұрын

What a fine channel.

@CaptivaLP 2 жыл бұрын

this one needs more views

@bethymckeefry5074 3 жыл бұрын

woohoo! Can’t wait x

@konstantincolovic6360 10 ай бұрын

What an amazing video!!!

@coffeemanray 2 жыл бұрын

i know a good up and coming channel when i see one

@andrew78219 Жыл бұрын

Incredible video!

@TheJayman213 2 жыл бұрын

Woah, was not expecting to find an arguably even higher production value youtube documentary on the Allende years than Plastic Pills's Cybersocialism.

@liamomalley653 10 ай бұрын

Phenomenal content

@benge1309 Жыл бұрын

Great video, went into it quite cynical at first considering its history on youtube (most of it tends to be rubbish) but was pleasantly surprised. I'm just curious, is there any resources which go further into detail evaluating whether Allende could have stayed in power if not for US intervention? In your video you infer not, but because this question is so up for interpretation I want to see the sources first. Additionally a tiny critique - I think Allende was not particularly a Chilean exceptionalist, rather I think the quote of him talking to Castro you cited was more indicative of his strong belief in change through liberal democracy than any exceptionalistic beliefs. To me it seems this was justifying his reformist path to socialism to Castro, as Marxists tend to sternly advocate for revolution. If theres any thing that I'm missing (which I probably am considering other sources) then I'll he glad to be corrected. Great video

@shansingh4675 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, sucks to see that you haven't been picked up by the algorithm yet

@PavelGalich 9 ай бұрын

The best analytics I know. impartially

@Greksallad Жыл бұрын

Top quality as usual, love your channel

@dipanshusingh Жыл бұрын

Loved this ❤️

@jfrancis98 Жыл бұрын

Commenting because I like the video. Great job!

@andrewthomson 2 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@atat67e 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome vid, a talented guy

@masterblockwarrior Жыл бұрын

Amazing work!

@jamesoshannasy8052 11 ай бұрын

Fkn great channel man

@HyperkalemiaSineWave 3 ай бұрын

This is good stuff!

@NightDocs Жыл бұрын

This is awesome! New sub

@elijahguttman9289 2 ай бұрын

Awesome video

@daniellloyd3521 11 ай бұрын

Yo algorithm boost this.

@squiggydog501 13 күн бұрын

This man is incredibly underrated

@georggallmetzer9581 2 жыл бұрын

Super video!!

@ongesucc4979 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Insanely good!

@sebastianhalmagean7037 Жыл бұрын

I directly typed in the name of this video and it wouldn’t come up…. Didn’t know KZfaq shadow banned

@Hussain4054 2 жыл бұрын

Nice content, you got a new subscriver!

@john_palmtree5918 10 ай бұрын

Do you make your own music because it’s really good and I was gonna ask if you could link the music anywhere

@dbk78 Жыл бұрын

great video

@user-gw3hq4mb7m 10 ай бұрын

Sometimes these are hard to watch because one can only suppress so much anger

@thatrubberduck5448 Жыл бұрын

This is great stuff

@jcos_currency Жыл бұрын

We need more content

@kazakov1667 Жыл бұрын

This is something incredible

@zooooks749 Жыл бұрын

What’s the name of the song that you used in the intro?

@adityabanerjee_1899 3 жыл бұрын

Really great work dude... Can I please ask How did you maks this video? What software and material?

@IMPERIALYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I made this with After Effects, Premiere Pro & Cinema 4D

@adityabanerjee_1899 3 жыл бұрын

@@IMPERIALYT thank you soo much!! The quality is real high and i love your videos

@memedealer6669 11 ай бұрын

Amazing

@larry3591 10 ай бұрын

Good job

@RamsyC9 2 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Hoog

@hamesthebeautiful3830 10 ай бұрын

Very cool

@goatscream8345 Жыл бұрын

This also happened in Argentina, the country next over

@foodlov3377 8 ай бұрын

For a follow up of this video you should focus on Stroessner Dictatorship and operation condor in Paraguay at the same time as Pinochet

@scottparker1741 11 ай бұрын

Still criminally undersubbed

@IceBelly 11 ай бұрын

underrated

@AbominableBigfoot 9 ай бұрын

Good vid 👍

@dolphin550 Жыл бұрын

Here is something strange: After watching your video on Spain and its trauma from its Francoist era I saw this video and put it into my Watch Later playlist for a few days. Today, saw a community post about Augusto Pinochet and I knew literally nothing about the man. Then, I looked into the comments and saw someone talking about his "good deeds" regarding hyperinflation and rooting about communism in Chile. So, I was curious and decided to check on Wikipedia about the person and... yeah it was pretty terrible. And now that I decided to take a look into my Watch Later playlist, I am surprised that I still had this. (Coincidence? Yes.) (Good video? Yes!)

@GlobstersMessenger 10 ай бұрын

Generally speaking whenever anyone wants to "root out communists", they're either someone with an intense fear of it (many ways this can come about, many which are understandable) or are fascist/lean towards an extreme authoritarian hierarchical system that they think will benefit them and are worried that commies might be able to credibly resist/gather support (it's pretty convincing when you have an underclass or peasantry with little material posessions/conditions to lose and a lot to gain from resisting) . Regardless of what some communist regimes have become, the latter are usually some of the worst humans.

@feastguy101 2 ай бұрын

@@GlobstersMessengerNice whitewashing of the millions of deaths caused by communism. Comparing the few thousand deaths under Pinochet to the deaths that would have resulted from a communist dictatorship is ridiculous. Not that I’m a fan of Pinochet, he was a traitor to his oath. What the Army should have done was overthrow Señor Decreto and restore power to the Congress, who could then have gone on to organize new presidential elections, as the constitution mandated. Instead, the bastards got power hungry.

@NorthernMafia8 Жыл бұрын

Needs morw views

@cakeisyummy5755 2 жыл бұрын

I am here from Hoog.

@thesalmonorchestra651 Жыл бұрын

Name at the end got censored?

@TBT0101 11 ай бұрын

Hopes this boost algorithm

@yankyener4491 2 жыл бұрын

Commenting for the algorithm!

@viceentt1041 3 жыл бұрын

I need this in spanish:(

@neoneyes3913 3 ай бұрын

Algo boost

@Luvinist Жыл бұрын

Of course the US would characterize BRI as a debt trap. They would know because they did the same before.

@rarekev9332 Жыл бұрын

👍

@skorp5677 5 күн бұрын

Damn outro song slaps (:

@timothyriley8558 Жыл бұрын

Commenting for the algorithm

@SnakeBush Жыл бұрын

Excellent channel name. Dont give rightest one chance to argue

@lowkoalatee4033 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure ur shadow Banned bro ur channel is hard to find as I was trying to find this video because it’s September 11

@IMPERIALYT Жыл бұрын

Have changed the name of the video now, might end up getting some more traction.

@shaaravsingh2415 10 ай бұрын

7:35

@bigjtexas2309 10 ай бұрын

I’ve been saying for years, the CIA deserves to have a Nuremberg style investigation and trail done for each and every member. True healing and progress happens when we are able to cut out the rot and expose the sickness and corruption.

@feastguy101 2 ай бұрын

Yes, deprive the world’s leading superpower of it’s intelligence agency. I’m sure that won’t bring any negative consequences! Life isn’t a Disney movie, and there’s far more important things to consider than “healing”. Goddamn kids.

@Tobi-ln9xr 5 күн бұрын

People are crazy when they believe that the things the US did are exceptionally evil or special. Meddling in elections or being heavily involved in civil wars and unrests is something which every major country has done in its history. Historically, European countries are mostly known for meddling in other countries affairs even on the European continent itself….

@Tobi-ln9xr 5 күн бұрын

I would even go as far as saying that the US is relatively humane in their interventions compared to other countries. (Look at Germany as one European example: Germany‘s bombing of Guernica during the Spanish civil war or Germany‘s bombing of Helsinki during the Finnish civil war or Germany‘s atrocities during the boxer uprising in china)

@Strong_UP_Calvins_zombie 10 ай бұрын

Yeah! good story

@joegambitt7414 Жыл бұрын

I think you are minimizing the u.s. intervention in the coup of 1973, great video nonetheless

@cjclark1208 Жыл бұрын

Very much so he is, and that’s highly suspect.

@randomcloverr Жыл бұрын

Came to comment the same thing. Judging by the majority of other comments, he's certainly pandering towards a particular audience, but I would have hoped for a bit more objectivity in the coverage of such a complex issue.

@jonasastrom7422 Жыл бұрын

@@cjclark1208 he isn't at all, he's actually exaggerating US involvement entirely, and also simply forgetting KGB involvement

@kordellswoffer1520 Жыл бұрын

@@randomcloverr what audience is that.

@FlymanMS 11 ай бұрын

@@randomcloverr lol do one better. "He isn't confirming MY bias so he must have an agenda and he's pondering" Clown

@DerekDickinson-jd3gv 5 күн бұрын

Politics is a slimy endeavor. So gray an area one can't with any accuracy something as easy as predicting the weather.

@boi3452 3 жыл бұрын

Comment

@presphinethepure5919 11 ай бұрын

isolation

@deepanshchaudhary5094 Жыл бұрын

Algorithm go boom!

@gunterhunerbein9510 28 күн бұрын

El pueblo unido

@varisleek3360 Жыл бұрын

just 10k views is criminal

@tatianalyulkin410 8 ай бұрын

I'm not arguing- I'm accusing!

@dawgface898 10 ай бұрын

Kinda like Lemino

@fl00fydragon Жыл бұрын

There is another reason why the US was heavily invested to cause a coup in Chile. Alliente was attempting an early version of computerized resource based economics, project cybersyn. Despite just barely being implemented project cybersyn was already showing that computerized resource based economics had a superior economic capacity to all systems that were implemented on the planet. The US was, and still is, terrified of domino theory: the fear that if one nation gets a democratic version of socialism that's superior to capitlaism in economic output and living standards then the people of other nations will demand it's implementation until sdaid wave of demand for it's implementation reach it's population. The US is a political system built as an enforcement tool to maximize the power and profit of the capitallist class it was built to serve, thus it's top priority is to eliminate any and all potential challegnes to the economic status quo. This is why the US backs 3/4 of today's dictatorships and is behind the majority of coups of modern history. And if all that fails it then resorts to direct intervention and "regime change". The US has exerted extreme effort to keep the argument of "there is no better alternative" alive by killing any attempt to make something better. And we're already seeng that it's now pushing for the worsening of economic conditions and the death of benefits abroad to eliminate the argument of "they have X there, why cana't we" that we saw duringthe Bernie campaign. As capitlaism reaches it's endpoint the US will move towards complete totaliratianism to retain it's plutocracy. The choices we have is to either implement a democratic alternative to capitlaism before we fully enter the AI age or barbarism.

@kordellswoffer1520 Жыл бұрын

This is nonsense. As it stands there is no better and more free and efficient alternative to the current system. You seem to be a dedicated ideologue but spare me the Bernie bro talking points.

@billbillerton6122 Жыл бұрын

@Kordell Swoffer There's no hope for those ideologues. They've been dropped on their heads as children. Yuri Bezmenov warned us in the West in the 80s, and no one listened.

@grandv12 11 ай бұрын

where did you get all this conspiracy theories from?🤣🤣🤣

@bzipoli 11 ай бұрын

yeah sure buddy all we need to figure out the best system there ever was was a 1970s chilean computer, way way way less capable than the phone on your pocket. but sure

@feastguy101 2 ай бұрын

Ayy lmao… kids these days will believe anything