US EditionChile Military Coup: The Other 9/11 of America
- On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a coup in Chile that overthrew President Salvador Allende, who had been democratically elected.
- The coup resulted in violent attacks targeting Allende's supporters, leading to numerous murders and detentions, with the National Stadium becoming a makeshift prison.
- Two American citizens, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, were murdered by Chilean forces shortly after the coup, amidst claims of U.S. involvement in their deaths.
- The Pinochet regime lasted 17 years and was marked by brutality, leading to thousands of deaths and disappearances, with its legacy deeply affecting Chilean society until Pinochet's eventual arrest in 1998 for crimes against humanity.
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52 Years Later, Chile’s 9/11 Mystery Continues to Surround Deaths of Two Americans - CovertAction Magazine
American embassy and CIA were complicit in their killings and the cover-up On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet launched a fascist coup in Chile that deposed Salvador Allende, a democratically elected socialist who had nationalized Chile’s copper industry and enacted other measures designed to equalize wealth in Chile. Supported by the Nixon administration and […] The post 52 Years Later, Chile’s 9/11 Mystery Continues to Surround Dea…
Chile commemorates Pinochet coup 52 years ago. Communists warn of a return of fascism in the country.
Santiago. It marks 52 years of the civic-military coup that overthrew the democratic government of socialist president Salvador Allende Gossens; the tragic events of that day continue to crush the country, as well as that the dictatorship, its victims, the perpetrators and its accomplices, are the subject of the November general elections.
In the 52nd commemoration of the coup d'état of September 11, 1973, the ambassador of Allende's family to the world, taken out of the Senate in April for the failed purchase of her parents' house, tries to rearm her life at the age of 80
Santiago de Chile - Silvio RodríguezThe story tells that the Cuban troubadour composed this heartfelt song after learning that in Chile, a coup d'état overthrew President Salvador Allende. In part tribute, in part evocation, since the Cuban had visited our country in 1972 - along with Noel Nicola and Pablo Milanés - during the thousand days of the government of the Popular Unity. “There love a terrible woman / Crying for the ever-eternal smoke /…
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