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Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the coup in 2023, the United States under the Biden administration finally declassified President Nixon's daily briefs related to Chile from 8 to 11 September 1973. The document for 8 September read: "A number of reports have been received... indicating the possibility of an early military coup.
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.
On 11 September 1973, a successful coup led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of Allende. During the bombing of the presidential palace by the Chilean Air Force, President Allende, after mounting a brief armed resistance against the military, eventually died by suicide. [4]
September 11, 2023 at 12:27 PM ... The U.S. government backed the 1973 coup and the Chilean government is pushing Washington to ... It described the events of Sept. 11, 1973 as “inevitable ...
The 1973 coup, in which tanks roamed the streets and Hawker Hunter planes bombed a burning La Moneda presidential place, reverberated around the world, marking the start of one of the most brutal ...
September 5, 2023 at 2:07 AM. ... In Chile, 9/11 was a landmark before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. because it was the date of the 1973 coup in the South American country ...
On September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende, President of Chile, committed suicide during a coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. After decades of suspicions that Allende might have been assassinated by the Chilean Armed Forces , a Chilean court authorized the exhumation and autopsy of Allende's ...
The high command of the Armed Forces sign the act with which they set September 11 as the date of the Coup d'état. September 11 - Military Coup: The 3 branches of the Armed Forces, plus Carabineros de Chile, carry out a coup d'état to overthrow President Salvador Allende, who refuses to resign, leading to a series of clashes between military ...