Tag: chilean coup

• Thursday, September 7th 2023 - 11:19 UTC

  “The situation in Chile was chaotic”, ex president Piñera recalls the Chilean coup

  

  Next Monday, September 11th, Chile will remember the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet which overthrew constitutionally elected president Salvador Allende, the first Marxist to reach the highest office in the land. But the coup and half a century, far from healing the wounds that caused it have remained alive in Chile, in a community that can be said has been divided in half.