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Pinochet, with the help of the United States, hit Allende in Chile

51
years ago

11 September 1973,

Augusto Pinochet, with the help of the United States, struck a coup in Chile. The palace of the Currency, the seat of the president, was bombed and President Allende committed suicide, as demonstrated years later by the autopsy of Paco Etxeberria. They set in motion a military dictatorship led by Pinochet and killed and killed thousands on the left.

Here Allende, from the president's headquarters, gave his last radio speech, while the building was being bombed.

The first arrests and killings took place this day. In the city of Antofagasta, for example, Guillermo E, 23 years old. Carabinero Schmidt Godoy refused to comply with the order to kill a group of workers and killed two officers.

He was shot the next day.

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