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Sep 10, 2023 · When the U.S. role in the 1973 coup in Chile became known, activists took action. So did U.S. lawmakers. This is what happened after the U.S. helped topple a Marxist and aided a right-wing...
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état (Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government.
- 11 September 1973
- Chile
Sep 11, 2013 · The Chilean coup became in turn, for the world in general a symbol of brutal military overthrow of progressive regimes. Symbols are not accurate history. The repressive side of the Cuban...
Sep 5, 2023 · The widely held understanding in Chile and abroad is that the United States’ participation in the financing, organisation, and execution of the 1973 coup took place in response to the copper nationalisation process.
3 days ago · Chile - Military Dictatorship, 1973-90: On September 11, 1973, the armed forces staged a coup d’état. Allende died during an assault on the presidential palace, and a junta composed of three generals and an admiral, with Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as president, was installed.
Sep 11, 2023 · When we remember the Chilean coup, we remember how the seeds of the rampant economic inequalities we see in the world today were sown on that fateful day. Also central to our commemorations are the stories of the ordinary Chileans whose lives were completely changed by the coup.
Sep 11, 2023 · Their efforts culminated in a military coup on September 11, 1973—50 years ago today—that deposed Allende and his democratically elected government, and plunged the country into dictatorship.
