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An authoritarian military dictatorship ruled Chile for seventeen years, between 11 September 1973 and 11 March 1990. The dictatorship was established after the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'état backed by the United States on 11 September 1973.
With the sound of helicopters whirling and Chile's La Moneda presidential palace ablaze, a virtual couple join the resistance movement against a military dictatorship in a video game released ...
Canada, among other countries, became a main point of refuge for many Chilean citizens. Through an operation known as "Special Movement Chile", more than 7,000 Chileans were relocated to Canada in the months following 11 September 1973. [146] These refugees are now known as Chilean Canadian people and have a population of over 38,000. [147]
This category collects articles about the military dictatorship by Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) in Chile The main article for this category is Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990) . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chile under Pinochet .
A government simulation or political simulation is a game that attempts to simulate the government and politics of all or part of a nation. These games may include geopolitical situations (involving the formation and execution of foreign policy), the creation of domestic political policies, or the simulation of political campaigns. [1]
The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism. Amid a weak economy and a surge in violent ...
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte [A] (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean military officer who was the dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990.From 1973 to 1981, he was the leader of the military junta, which in 1974 declared him President of the Republic and thus the dictator of Chile; [4] [5] [6] in 1980, a referendum approved a new constitution confirming him in the office ...
Following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, an armed leftist resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship developed until 1990 when democracy was restored.This conflict was part of the South American theater in the Cold War, with the United States backing the Chilean military and the Soviet Union backing the guerrillas.