The Chilean Coup at 50

Created
Mon, 11/09/2023 - 23:59
Updated
Fri, 15/09/2023 - 02:00

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup in Chile on 11 September 1973. The bloody overthrow of Chile’s democratically-elected Popular Unity government and the death of socialist President Salvador Allende coronated a far-right military dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet, which would last for seventeen years. Tens of thousands of socialists, trade unionists, and […]