Tag: Salvador Allende

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 23:18 UTC

  End of story: family confirms Chile’s former leader Allende committed suicide in 1973

  

  Experts examining the remains of former Chilean leader Salvador Allende ruled out murder in the Marxist president's 1973 death, concluding that he committed suicide as soldiers involved in a coup burst into the presidential palace, the late leader's daughter said Tuesday.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 21:14 UTC

  Chilean justice reopens 1973 bombing of the Presidential palace

  

  Retired Chilean Air Force head Fernando Matthei denied this week any knowledge of the identities of the pilots involved in the air strike that helped solidify the 1973 military coup d’etat and subsequent 17-year dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2011 - 03:54 UTC

  President Allende’s death “may not have been a suicide” suggests forensic expert

  

  Chile’s national television station TVN ran an investigative program on Monday night unveiling new evidence that former President Salvador Allende’s death may not have been a suicide, as previously believed

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 18:59 UTC

  Former president Allende’s family petitioning return of the AK47, a gift from Fidel Castro

  

  The family of Chile’s former president, Salvador Allende, petitioned for the rifle AK-47 used on his alleged suicide to be found. Allende is supposed to have committed suicide in the midst of a violent army coup led by general Pinochet in September 1973.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 03:19 UTC

  Chile exhumes Allende’s remains to end a long standing controversy

  

  Investigators in Chile exhumed Salvador Allende’s remains on Monday as part of an inquiry into the former president’s death in a military coup 37 years ago. Allende died during a September 1973 military attack against the presidential palace that led to 17 years of dictatorial rule.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 07:14 UTC

  Investigation on Allende’s death gives hope to relatives of former Brazilian leader

  

  Relatives of former Brazilian president Joao Goulart who have long argued that he was the victim of the Southern Cone military government’s ‘terrorist’ operations in the seventies are encouraged by the Chilean justice decision to exhume and analyze the remains of former president Salvador Allende.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:23 UTC

  US ready to help Chile solve human rights crimes but no apology for 1973 events

  

  In what was the most controversial issue of the visit, President Obama said he's ready to help Chile solve human rights crimes committed during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, but avoided agreeing Monday to a US apology for meddling in the country's affairs.

• Monday, March 21st 2011 - 16:47 UTC

  Fidel: “Will Mr. Obama apologize to the Chilean people for the 1973 coup?”

  

  Cuban revolution leader Fidel Castro questions if US president Barack Obama, who on Monday is visiting Chile will apologize for the military coup against Salvador Allende in 1973, according to his latest article released this Monday.

• Thursday, January 27th 2011 - 20:09 UTC

  Chilean Authorities Launch Inquiry into Salvador Allende’s Death

  

  Chile has commenced its first ever investigation into the death of former president Salvador Allende.

• Monday, September 13th 2010 - 19:08 UTC

  Riots and arrests on Chile’s coup anniversary, “but calmer than in previous years”

  

  As President Sebastián Piñera spoke of national unity and moving past quarrels from recent history on the anniversary of the 11 September 1973 military coup that ousted democratically elected President Salvador Allende, protests and demonstrations occurred throughout Chile.