Today we went on a metro train to Barrio Brasil in Santiago. When we got there we were looking for the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, but when we were looking for it we couldn't find it, then we realized it was in the wrong place on the map. We got pretty darn hungry by the time we figured out it was wrong on the map so we looked for food, but we didn't really find anywhere to eat so we got some smoothies. They were good I got a pineapple and my brother got a strawberry. We found a restaurant that looked good but they had some kind of thing happening that you could only get these giant plates of different foods. Then we finally found a restaurant that had pizza so we got the pizza but instead of tomato sauce there was ketchup.
We finally found the museum and went in. There were a bunch of little movies playing about the Chilean coup that happened on September 11, 1973 (it is interesting that it is the same day, 9/11, that the twin towers were bombed). The military of Chile didn't like the president, Salvador Allende, so they bombed the presidential palace. The United States Government didn't support President Allende, but did support General Pinochet in the coup. When we got home from the museum my dad looked up the coup and found out that President Allende committed suicide with an AK-47 that was given to him by Fidel Castro. You can read more about the coup on
Wikipedia.
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| Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos |
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| Bombing of presidential palace |
