Responding 'with life': A divided Chile marks 50 years since coup
Fifty years after a coup and brutal military dictatorship, some Chileans are forgetting their history – and cleaving new divisions.
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Fifty years after a coup and brutal military dictatorship, some Chileans are forgetting their history – and cleaving new divisions.
On September 11, 1973, entrenched in the presidential palace in Santiago and facing Augusto Pinochet's coup, the Chilean president knew his hours were numbered. A new book looks at the story of the famous last photograph of Salvador Allende, in which he is holding a gun, a few hours before his suicide.
Santiago de Chile, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, declared today that the 1973 coup d'état cannot be separated from what came after, because human rights were violated from the first moment.
The moment that Salvador Allende was violently deposed on September 11, 1973, democratic socialists in the US knew it was a crime. They joined others around the world organizing solidarity efforts and supporting political refugees.
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