Augustin Edwards person
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Augustin Edwards secretly_owned
El Mercurio documented
“for other operations because they were so visible. Among the most vital resources was the Chilean paper, El Mercurio, the country's biggest daily. It's basically their version of the New York Times, published by Augustine Edwards, who owned…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 4:29
Richard Nixon funded
Augustin Edwards host_asserted
“PepsiCo in this that I remember is right here. It says, Augustine Edwards, who was the publisher of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, an associate of Richard Nixon's friend Donald Kendall, who ran PepsiCo, Edwards foreboding were such that…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 45:07
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▶ 5:31
It was whoever finished first was going to get confirmed by the Congress. And there's a guy down there by the name of Augustin Edwards. He was Chile's richest man and owner of the largest newspaper. And I think you pronounce the newspaper E…
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Because he had made all kinds of side deals with the imperialist Americans and was basically in bed with all of them. So he went to the American embassy in Santiago, which is the Chilean capital. And there was an ambassador, Edward Corey, t…
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Question mark. Corey told him, no, we would not. That was not the answer that Edwards was wanting to hear. So he decided he was going to go above Corey's head and he was going to approach people in Washington and ask for a few favors. Edwar…
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close to most of the leading American executives that did business in Chile. So he had access to all of the inner circles. And the timing is 1970. So this is the Nixon administration. President Nixon had repeatedly declared his determinatio…
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So the directors of the ITT Corporation held their monthly meeting in New York. ITT was one of the largest conglomerates in the world. It had large holdings in Chile and faced the same threat that hung over Edwards' business empire. Its pri…
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Richard Helms, who was the current CIA director. A covert campaign in Chile could not be launched without an order from the president. Edwards undertook to secure that order. He chose his old friend and business partner, Donald Kendall, K-E…
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his many other business ventures was the principal Pepsi distributor in Chile. All three thrived on international business overlaps with geopolitical contacts. September 14th, Kendall brought his father to the White House to meet President …
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He never wavered in his determination to bring Alente down from that moment on. He had been triggered into action, Kissinger said. Immediately after hearing from Kendall, Nixon sent him to meet with Kissinger and Attorney General John Mitch…
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and they agreed to meet with him the next morning during a breakfast conversation that would prove to be among the most far-reaching in the history of U.S. and Latin America relations. Edwards painted a dark picture of what was happening in…
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That's the accusation. Kissinger, and let me just say this. They all know this is horseshit. This is the crap that they fed to the American public. But every single one of them understands what this anti-communist, the World League, the Wor…
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ensure the international syndicate is happy, not what's best for America. The Chilean election approached. Rockefeller recalled in his memoirs, he made a telephone call that helped push the Nixon administration onto an anti-Alente track. He…
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Some years later, in a celebrated television interview with David Frost, Nixon rationalized that the addition of Chile to a Cuba profile would have made Latin America a red sandwich of sorts, like the domino theory happening even though he …
▶ 45:07
PepsiCo in this that I remember is right here. It says, Augustine Edwards, who was the publisher of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, an associate of Richard Nixon's friend Donald Kendall, who ran PepsiCo, Edwards foreboding were such that…
▶ 4:29
for other operations because they were so visible. Among the most vital resources was the Chilean paper, El Mercurio, the country's biggest daily. It's basically their version of the New York Times, published by Augustine Edwards, who owned…
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would become known as Track One. Richard Nixon, a friend of Pepsi Corporation, President Donald Kendall, took a phone call from him. Kendall told Nixon that a friend, Augustin Edwards, the publisher of the New York Times variation in Chile,…
▶ 13:58
Nixon told Edwards and Kendall to see Kissinger. Nixon does not recall specifically, but concedes it's quite possible that he told his people to see the Chilean publisher. The next morning, September 15th, Edwards and Kendall breakfast with…