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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...
Jun 18, 2014 · The 1973 coup in Chile is often included in indictments of U.S. covert action during the Cold War, during which the United States, at the direction of a number of presidents, sometimes took actions of questionable wisdom to prevent or reverse the rise of leftists who Washington feared might lead their countries into the Soviet orbit.
Sep 6, 2023 · As 1973 coup still reverberates, a man is pushing for full history of US role in Augusto Pinochet’s rise and fall.
- Lucia Newman
Sep 11, 2023 · The US did not end its destructive meddling in Chile’s affairs after successfully instigating a coup against its democratically elected leader either.
Sep 12, 2023 · SANTIAGO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Chile on Monday marked 50 years since a violent coup by Augusto Pinochet against socialist President Salvador Allende ushered in two decades of military rule that...
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- Natalia A. Ramos Miranda
Sep 9, 2023 · It was the beginning of a 17-year dictatorship that saw the deaths and disappearances of at least 3,065 people, the brutal torture of thousands more and a child-trafficking system that stole...
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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.