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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.
After the democratic election of President Salvador Allende in 1970, an economic war ordered by President Richard Nixon, [19] among other things, caused the 1973 Chilean coup d'état with the involvement of the CIA [20] due to Allende's democratic socialist leanings. What followed was the decades-long US-backed military dictatorship of Augusto ...
The coup led to a series of human rights abuses in Chile under Pinochet, who initiated a brutal and long-lasting campaign of political suppression through torture, murder, and exile, which significantly weakened leftist opposition to the military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990).
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.
The military dictatorship utilized its own justice system to adjudicate the regime's enemies. [ 49 ] Additionally, the Amnesty Law decreed in 1978 by Pinochet guaranteed impunity to those responsible for the "systematic and widespread human rights violations and was a major obstacle to bringing Pinochet to justice in Chile. [ 50 ]
The president of Chile issued a fervent defense of democracy on Monday, the 50th anniversary of the coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that ushered in a brutal military dictatorship for almost two ...
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 .
That's because Cortés’ sister, María Hastings, was one of thousands of Chilean children trafficked or illegally put up for adoption over the last 60 years or so, most during the dictatorship ...