The women quilting around a large table at the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared banter quietly about mundane topics – an upcoming holiday, a child’s antics – as they wield their needles and scissors.

But when the conversation turns to United States military intervention in Venezuela, a distant South American neighbor, the tone sharpens.

“The United States of Trump is putting its eagle’s talons into another country that dares do things it doesn’t like,” says Claudia Lara, stitching a brightly colored panel depicting a street protest. “We in Chile know about those talons. It was the CIA and the U.S. military that took away our democracy and gave us a dictatorship.”

Why We Wrote This

The United States backed a military coup in Chile in 1973, ushering in nearly two decad

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