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John Bartlett in Santiago

Chilean lawmakers want ‘museum of truth’ to provide far-right take on Allende era

Two hands holding up photographs of Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet in front of La Moneda presidential palace
Pictures of Salvador Allende (left) and Augusto Pinochet in Santiago. Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images

Far-right lawmakers in Chile have proposed the creation of a “museum of truth” to tell its own version of the years preceding Gen Augusto Pinochet’s bloody dictatorship – and emphasise the plight of what it calls the victims of Salvador Allende’s socialist government.

According to the seven congresspeople from the far-right National Libertarian party who presented the bill, the museum would highlight the “outrage, hunger and humiliation” of Allende’s Popular Unity government.

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