Chile: Absence of Commemorations of the 1973 Coup D'état Criticized by Part of the Population
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In Chile, memory endures without an official ceremony
On the anniversary of the 1973 coup, Chileans gathered at museums, former detention centers and memorial sites as President José Antonio Kast’s government chose not to hold its traditional remembrance event.
In Chile, no official ceremony took place this Friday, September 11, 2026 for the 53rd commemoration of the 1973 military coup. This is the first time this has happened since the return of democracy in the country. The current extreme right-wing president, José Antonio Kast, who has never hidden his support for dictator Pinochet, believes that the country must now "look towards the future". But for part of the population, this date must continue…
Chile has commemorated the 53 years since the coup d’état under the mandate of the only president since the return to democracy that voted for Augusto Pinochet to continue in power in the 1988 plebiscite: José Antonio Kast. Unlike his predecessors - including Sebastián Piñera, from the centre right- he decided not to perform any official act and go to a pattern in the south. Critiqued by the left, the president said that, “as I cannot erase the …
Chile’s ultra-rightist president, José Antonio Kast, ignored the 53rd anniversary of the coup d’état of September 11, 1973, when General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the constitutional government of Salvador Allende, in a fact that marked the beginning of a 17-year dictatorship that left tens of thousands of victims. The post Chile: Kast ignores September 11 and breaks with decades of official commemoration first appeared on Cubadebate.
The Citizen During the commemoration of the coup d'état of 1973, Chile lived a day of mobilization marked by peaceful cultural acts in honor of President Salvador Allende. Despite its vindication nature, these events were repressed by the Kast government, which refused to participate in an institutional act of memory. Coverage includes [...] The entry #Chile was mobilized in memory of the coup d'état of 1973 with cultural acts repressed by order…
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