Thirty five years ago the democratically elected government of Chile was overthrown by a U.S. backed coup led by Augusto Pinochet. President Salvador Allende died in the coup, and seventeen years of military dictatorship and political repression followed, with at least three thousand people murdered or disappeared and many more imprisoned and tortured.
11.9.08
On This Day In History...
Thirty five years ago the democratically elected government of Chile was overthrown by a U.S. backed coup led by Augusto Pinochet. President Salvador Allende died in the coup, and seventeen years of military dictatorship and political repression followed, with at least three thousand people murdered or disappeared and many more imprisoned and tortured.
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