another sept 11 anniversary--the coup in chile
1973 Chilean coup d'état
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The Bombing of La Moneda on 11 September 1973 by the Junta's Armed Forces.
Date 11 September 1973
Location Chile
Action Armed forces put the country under military control. Little and unorganized civil resistance.
Result Unidad Popular government overthrown, Salvador Allende committed suicide, Military Junta Government assumed power
Belligerents
Chile Chilean Government
Flag of the MIR - Chile.svg Revolutionary Left Movement[1]
Chilean Air Force
Carabineros de Chile
Supported by:
United States United States
Commanders and leaders
Chile Salvador Allende
Flag of the MIR - Chile.svg Miguel Enríquez
Max Marambio Chile Augusto Pinochet
Chile José Toribio Merino
Chile Gustavo Leigh
Chile César Mendoza
Operation Condor
Background histories
Argentina Bolivia Brazil (1960s) Chile (1973 coup d'état) Paraguay Peru Uruguay
Events
Dirty War National Reorganization Process Operation Colombo Operation Charly Operation Gladio Night of the Pencils Operation Independence Ezeiza massacre Margarita Belén massacre Death flights Desaparecidos (the "disappeared"
1973 Chilean coup d'état
Government leaders
Jorge Anaya Hugo Banzer Basilio Lami Dozo João Figueiredo Leopoldo Galtieri Augusto Pinochet Alfredo Stroessner Jorge Rafael Videla
Targeted militias
Montoneros Tupamaros
People's Revolutionary Army (ERP)
Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR)
Principal operatives
Alfredo Astiz Orlando Bosch Hugo Campos Hermida Manuel Contreras Stefano Delle Chiaie José López Rega Virgilio Paz Romero Luis Posada Carriles Paul Schäfer Michael Townley
Organizations responsible
Dirección de Inteligencia
Nacional (DINA)
Caravan of Death
Batallón de Inteligencia 601
Coordination of United Revolutionary
Organizations (CORU)
National Intelligence
Service of Brazil (SNI)
School of the Americas (SOA)
Servizio per le Informazioni e
la Sicurezza Militare (SISMI)
Argentine Anticommunist
Alliance ("Triple A"
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Places
Esmeralda Estadio Nacional de Chile Villa Grimaldi Colonia Dignidad
Navy Petty-Officers School
of Mechanics (ESMA)
Laws
Full stop Due Obedience
Archives and reports
Archives of Terror Rettig Report Valech Report National Security Archive
Reactions
National Commission on the
Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP)
Trial of the Juntas
Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
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The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the Cold War and the history of Chile. Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the center-right dominated Congress of Chile and the elected socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon,[2] Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police.[3][4]
The military replaced the Unidad Popular government and established a Junta de Gobierno that suspended all political activity in the country and repressed left-wing movements, especially the Communist and Socialist parties and the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). Allende's appointed army chief, Augusto Pinochet, rose to supreme power within a year of the coup, formally assuming power in late 1974.[5] The United States government, which had worked to create the conditions for the coup,[6] promptly recognized the junta government and supported it in consolidating power.[7]
During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech, in which he vowed to stay in the presidential palace, denouncing offers for safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation.[8] Direct witness accounts of Allende's death agree that he committed suicide in the palace.[9][10]
Before Pinochet's rule, Chile had for decades been hailed as a beacon of democracy and political stability while the rest of South America had been plagued by military juntas and Caudillismo. A weak insurgent movement against the Pinochet regime was maintained inside Chile by elements sympathetic to the former Allende government. An internationally supported plebiscite in 1988 eventually removed Pinochet from power.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat