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Photo: Salvador Allende addressing a massive crowd of supporters In September 1970, Salvador Allende became the first Marxist president democratically
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
On the morning of September 11, 1973, Hawker Hunter jets bombed La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile. Hours later, Chile’s elected head of state, President Salvador Allende, was dead. Soldiers raided working-class districts across the country rounding up left-wing activists.
Divisions between reformist and revolutionary strategies were exposed by the efforts to build a Chile solidarity movement in the UK, explains Chris Bambery On 11 September 1973, I was working at a summer job between school and university.
On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup, let’s follow Pinochet resisters’ example of solidarity in repressive times.