50 Years After "the Other 9/11": Remembering the Chilean Coup
Some personal reflections on history, memory, and the survival of democracies.
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Some personal reflections on history, memory, and the survival of democracies.
Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said those events can’t be “erased even with all the water of the oceans”.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Sunday in Santiago that he admired late Chilean President Salvador Allende, who was 'a victim of scoundrels.' The visiting leader made those remarks on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the military coup d'état by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, which overthrew the Socialist head of state and started a 17-year dictatorship.
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup d’état in Chile, the president and his predecessors talk to EL PAÍS about the divisions in the country. In the face of tensions and disenchantment, they call for national unity
A day after violence and arson marred a memorial march, Chile marked 50 years since the coup d'etat that brought Augusto Pinochet to power with events Monday honoring the dictatorship's thousands of victims.