updated Sun. July 7, 2024
-
News Ghana
February 27, 2017
Chile was an uninterrupted democracy for a hundred years before the 1973 coup. All it took was one very bad government. Democracy must deliver change because "those who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable".
Tribune-Review
February 19, 2017
Recent magazine covers appear to say we're on the brink of something like the 1973 coup against Chile's Allende government.
Wanderlust
January 3, 2017
Then stroll to the 18th-century presidential palace La Moneda, where President Salvador Allende died during Chile's 1973 coup after refusing to leave. His statue is outside, engraved with words from the final speech he gave over the radio as the ...
The Age
December 30, 2016
General Alvarez, whose father was also a general, participated in the 1973 coup that dissolved the congress following a government crackdown on the Marxist Tupamaro rebels, who were trying to seize power by force.
teleSUR English
December 29, 2016
The foundation was created in 1957, before Pinochet was installed as dictator, to help needy women organize and work as a community to improve their lives, but after the 1973 coup, Hiriart assumed the presidency and changed the organization's statutes ...
Yahoo Singapore News
December 28, 2016
Uruguay's last military dictator, General Gregorio "El Goyo" Alvarez, died Wednesday at age 91 of heart failure, a defense ministry official said.
The Independent
December 28, 2016
For a snapshot of Chile's history, start at La Moneda (4) in the historic centre. This is the presidential palace where left-wing president Salvador Allende died in the 1973 coup d'etat led by General Augusto Pinochet. Book a free tour in advance; you ...
Yahoo Singapore News
December 27, 2016
Uruguay's last military dictator, General Gregorio "El Goyo" Alvarez, died Wednesday at age 91 of heart failure, a defense ministry official said.
Boston Review
December 22, 2016
(Neruda had been the presidential candidate for the communist party in 1969 but bowed out to support the candidacy of Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until the 1973 coup.) The probe resulted in Neruda's exhumation. Results from multipleÃÂ ...
Latin Times
December 20, 2016
Pablo, who has had a lot of success in Latin America with films like "The Club" (nominated last year), about pedophile priests, and "Post Mortem," about Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup, is really committed to his job and has been working very hard to get ...
The Conversation UK
December 19, 2016
The morning after the bloody 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power and left democratically elected president Salvador Allende dead, tens of thousands of Allende's supporters were detained by the military, first in another sports stadium, the Estadio ...
Progressive.org
December 16, 2016
We see scenes from harrowing prison camps (in what may also refer to the widespread repression following Generalissimo Pinochet's bloody 1973 coup d'etat). After a warrant is issued for his arrest, Pablo and Delia go underground and try to escape Chile.
Sri Lanka Guardian
December 15, 2016
Forty-three years after the U.S.-supported military coup in Chile, the Central Intelligence Agency continues to withhold information on what it knew about planning for the putsch, and what intelligence it shared with President Richard Nixon, according ...
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
December 14, 2016
Latin America's Schindler. Roberto Kozak is virtually unknown. And yet this quiet man played a crucial role after the 1973 coup in Chile and he helped tens of thousands of prisoners out of custody and to find safe havens overseas.
Latin American Herald Tribune
December 14, 2016
SANTIAGO - Lucia Hiriart, the widow of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, on Wednesday testified for two hours before a judge investigating her alleged appropriation of public lands and diversion of funds from a foundation she heads, judicial officialsÃÂ ...
Latin American Herald Tribune
December 14, 2016
SANTIAGO - Lucia Hiriart, the widow of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, on Wednesday testified for two hours before a judge investigating her alleged appropriation of public lands and diversion of funds from a foundation she heads, judicial officialsÃÂ ...
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
December 14, 2016
Roberto Kozak is virtually unknown. And yet this quiet man played a crucial role after the 1973 coup in Chile and he helped tens of thousands of prisoners out of custody and to find safe havens overseas.
teleSUR English
December 11, 2016
... socialist President Salvador Allende called on Norwegian authorities Sunday to arrest former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during his visit to the Scandinavian nation for his support of the 1973 coup in Chile and the brutal repression it ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 10, 2016
Human Rights Day, December 10, 2016, we bring to the attention of our readers an important article published in 2002 on the record of US war crimes.
iAfrica.com
December 9, 2016
(FILES) This file photo taken on March 11, 1990 shows late Chilean dictator (1973-1990) General Augusto Pinochet during the inaugural ceremony of President Patricio Aylwin.
The Daily Progress
December 5, 2016
Letelier had been a top official under President Salvador Allende, a Marxist who was ousted by Pinochet in a 1973 coup. Letelier was tortured and jailed, then later fled to the U.S.
Humanosphere
November 14, 2016
Bachelet and her mother were detained and abused under the dictatorship, and Bachelet's father, an air force general, was tortured to death for opposing the 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power. chile human rights abuses Michelle Bachelet PinochetÃÂ ...
PanAm Post
November 2, 2016
For the first time since the 1973 coup, the opposition could expose their views on television. However, the military government censored the "No" campaign.
Gizmodo Australia
October 19, 2016
Peter Kornbluh, a reporter from The National Security Archive who helped expose just how substantial the CIA's involvement in the 1973 coup was, published an earlier version of that file in 2006, shortly after Pinochet died. But Kornbluh's version had ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
October 12, 2016
Similar to many components of Chilean society, such as its privatized pension program, the country's modern education system has its roots in the 1973 coup that replaced socialist President Salvador Allende with conservative dictator Augusto Pinochet.
CNN
October 9, 2016
(CNN) Donald Trump quipped during Sunday night's debate that if he were president, Hillary Clinton would be in jail. The comment caught many Americans off-guard.
Business Insider
October 7, 2016
The 12 had faced a "war council" after being associated with opposition to the 1973 coup by General Augusto Pinochet, an event that still has repercussions in politics, law and social cohesion in Chile four decades later.
teleSUR English
October 5, 2016
According to official data, 3,000 people were categorized as disappeared, another 3,000 summarily executed and thousands arrested and tortured during the Pinochet dictatorship that began with the 1973 coup d'etat which deposed democratically-electedÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
October 5, 2016
According to declassified documents from the CIA, Pinochet ordered the car bomb attack in Washington, D.C., that killed Orlando Letelier - a Chilean leftist economist, politician and diplomat who went into exile following the 1973 coup against ...
Yahoo7 News
October 4, 2016
Santiago (AFP) - Chile's Supreme Court said Tuesday it has annulled a treason conviction against President Michelle Bachelet's father, who was jailed and tortured to death for opposing the country's 1973 coup. Alberto Bachelet, a top general in the ...
teleSUR English
September 30, 2016
The Death Caravan was the name of a military operation that killed almost 100 political prisoners in Chile beginning on Sept. 30, 1973.
The Manila Times
September 28, 2016
TWO suspected drug pushers, one of them a high-value target, were killed while their unidentified companion escaped after engaging a group of policemen in a shootout during an operation on Tuesday afternoon in Barangay Malabanban Sur, Candelaria inÃÂ ...
The Manila Times
September 27, 2016
A teachers' group on Tuesday expressed its support to the planned mandatory drug tests for teachers and students in public schools.
Latin American Herald Tribune
September 23, 2016
WASHINGTON - The United States on Friday will deliver to Chile a final batch of declassified documents on the Sept. 21, 1976, assassination in Washington of Orlando Letelier, a leading foreign-based critic of the then-dictatorship headed by Gen ...
The Nation.
September 21, 2016
Orlando Letelier Orlando Letelier was Chilean Ambassador to the United States and Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Salvador Allende.
Apollo Magazine
September 21, 2016
Data from the country's (nationalised) industries would have been sent straight to the Cybersyn control room (where decision makers could receive it).
Consortium News
September 12, 2016
From the Archive: Americans feel a special sadness about the terrible loss of life on Sept. 11, 2001, but the 9/11 date has other meanings in other countries, reflecting a U.S.
The Sydney Morning Herald
September 12, 2016
Clashes broke out in Chile at a protest to mark the 43rd anniversary of the 1973 coup that left then-President Salvador Allende dead and ushered in the 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinoche ... Clashes broke out in Chile at a protest to mark ...
teleSUR English
September 12, 2016
In the same vein of avoiding the role of the U.S. in the 1973 coup, during another address in La Moneda several hours later, he was forced to make a vague reference to it.
Chicago Tribune
September 11, 2016
11, 1973 coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. The body of President Salvador Allende, wrapped in a Bolivian poncho, is carried by soldiers and firefighters from the destroyed presidential palace after the Sept.
Malay Mail Online
September 10, 2016
Dinges said Pinochet was evidently US-backed, which was why he and some of his colleagues were allowed to stay in the South American country even after the 1973 coup against the elected government of popular socialist leader Salvador Allende.
teleSUR English
September 9, 2016
The CIA continues to withhold information on its involvement in the Sept. 11, 1973 coup that led to the death of President Salvador Allende in Chile, followed by a deadly dictatorship, according to documents posted Friday by the National Security Archive.
UN News Centre
September 8, 2016
"Ms. Anstee brought energy, humility, courage and a sense of adventure to everything she did," the Secretary-General said, "from negotiating peace with rebels in Nigeria, to spiriting UN staff out of Chile in the days following the 1973 coup." She ...
Rappler
September 6, 2016
... countryside retreat house, Los Boldos, in Santo Domingo, Chile. Incidentally, the Chilean president at the time, Michelle Bachelet, was the daughter of a general who was imprisoned and later died in jail after opposing the 1973 coup that brought ...
Prensa Latina
September 5, 2016
05 de septiembre de 2016, 09:58 Santiago de Chile, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) Chile has entered a week of commemorations related to the September 11, 1973 coup d''etat and the establishment of the dictatorship, which left thousands of people missing or deadÃÂ ...
The Intercept
September 3, 2016
While those inside the national security community in Washington, D.C., may applaud the endorsement, Kissinger's legacy of war crimes - from complicity in the 1973 coup in Chile to spearheading the saturation bombing of Indochina - has made him farÃÂ ...
Screen International
September 1, 2016
In one chilling example of the former, the dictator Augusto Pinochet is seen presiding over an internment camp, many years before the 1973 coup that would sweep him to power in Chile. This aspect of Pinochet's past was news to Larrain, who grew up ...
The Interpreter
September 1, 2016
The 1973 coup attempt was just one episode in a history of difficult relations between the US and the small, isolated communist state, which the US bombed heavily during the Vietnam War.
Iran Book News Agency
September 1, 2016
But now, twelve years after the 1973 coup, he neither believes in what he sang nor does cherish the prospect of a promising progress.
Washington Blade
August 31, 2016
Augusto Pinochet toppled then-President Salvador Allende in a 1973 coup - can be justified. Tatchell told the Blade that sanctions - such as those against Iran - and the U.S.
