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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Lucia Newman

Fifty years after Chile’s coup, the search for truth continues

A demonstrator shows a picture of former Chilean President Salvador Allende during a protest marking the 49th anniversary of the 1973 Chilean military coup, in Santiago, Chile, September 11, 2022 [File: Carlos Vera/Reuters]

Santiago, Chile – Next week marks 50 years since the September 11, 1973 coup d’etat in Chile, led by General Augusto Pinochet in the middle of the Cold War.

One might think that after half a century, there is little left to know about the circumstances surrounding the overthrow of the world’s first democratically elected, Marxist president, Salvador Allende.

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