On This Day, Sept. 11: Military coup topples Chile's Salvador Allende
In 1973, the elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende of Chile was toppled in a right-wing military coup led by ...
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One-third of Chileans okay with Pinochet overthrowing Allende
Over 30 % of Chile's population still approves of General Augusto Pinochet staging a military coup d'état nearly half a century ago to topple Socialist President Salvador Allende, according to a ...
Isabel Allende: ‘Black, white, tall, short. I have the right to put myself in anybody’s skin’
But then, in 1973, the government of Salvador Allende, her father’s cousin, was overthrown in a military coup, she was placed ...
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Chile coup 40 years on: How the US and ruling class ushered in a reign of terror
These are my personal memories of that savage coup d’etat which took place 40 years ago — on September 11 1973 — and brought down the government of the popular socialist president Salvador Allende. He ...
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Arrests, protests and looting in Santiago on the anniversary of the military coup
From the very beginning the traditional march in the Chilean capital recalling the coup set a bus on fire ... the monument dedicated to ex-president Allende. Other peaceful protestors gathered ...
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Chile revisits the mysterious death of poet Pablo Neruda
President Allende, in a coup". For more than a decade, experts in Canada, Denmark and Chile "have pored over the poet's remains in a bid to establish what killed him, but have been unable to ...
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Salvador Allende
The 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup against Salvador Allende reminded many of the need to continue to defend democratic rights and support the struggle for democracy and socialism. Jim ...
Green Left Weekly1y
Chile coup
The 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup against Salvador Allende reminded many of the need to continue to defend democratic rights and support the struggle for democracy and socialism. Jim ...