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Speaker 1: or under control. The Chilean squad looked like a group

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Speaker 1: Chile's military dictator, General Augusto Pinochet was no doubt celebrating

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Speaker 1: episode seven, Seeing No Evil. On this faithful September morning,

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Speaker 1: That's Samuel Galvez, an American Spanish language radio host who

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Speaker 1: one last radio address, long long lived, the people, long

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Speaker 1: Bomb that day continued to burn. The pungent smell of

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Speaker 1: In the days following the coup, soldiers rounded up thousands

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Speaker 1: Bodies floated in the currents of the Mapocho River each morning,

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Speaker 1: Samuel Galvez remembers the confusion and horror each day brought,

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Speaker 1: That's the issue. The main issue among the many who

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Speaker 1: more than a century. Chilean democracy was far less fortunate

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Speaker 1: But after seeing the carnage across Chile, the Sylviets threatened

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Speaker 1: Here again, journalist John Gonzalez. There's such a passion of

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Speaker 1: That's coming up next on the Lords of Soccer. The

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Speaker 1: The series was written and executive produced by Gary Scott

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