An Artist’s Horrifying Reaction to 9/11

In 1973, after the coup d’état in Chile replacing the democratically elected president Salvador Allende for the military dictator Augusto Pinochet, Oswaldo Guayasamin, an Ecuadorian artist painting a horrifying picture of United States Imperialism: Lagrimas de Sangre. Compilation made by the Associated Press of US interventions in Latin America: Noam Chomsky’s Chile, excerpted from Secrets, Lies, and Democracy, 1994 Support us on Patreon: #arthistory #art