Speaker to address ‘Anarchy’

POST FALLS — A presentation, “Anarchy: An Eye Witness Account,” is scheduled 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the American Legion, 1138 E. Poleline Ave.

Leah Southwell, who lived in Holland for 10 years and in Chile for seven years, will talk about a military coup in Chile in 1973, when a “Socialist/Communist president was removed and Marxism was successfully suppressed. Free market economics were introduced and Chile became the world’s ‘Economic Miracle’ and considered the best in Latin America. Then last October society suddenly erupted in violent protest, burning, looting and fighting with the police and even triggering a state of emergency, bringing out the military to the streets of Santiago, and lasting months.”

Southwell will look at the commonalities of what happened there with what is happening in the U.S.

“Although the spark was different the underlying causes are the same,” said a flyer. “What is happening in the world today and why?”