'The Other 9/11': Progressives Remember Allende's Chile

[Judi Lynn]

1. Chileans Pay Homage to Allende on 48th Anniversary of the Coup

Chileans Pay Homage to Allende on 48th Anniversary of the Coup

Published 11 September 2021

It is estimated that over 35,000 people were victims of human rights violations, political and sexual violence during the dictatorship (1973-1990).

On Saturday, human rights activists took to the streets in Chile to recall ex-President Salvador Allende and victims of forced disappearances on the occasion of the 48th anniversary of the coup that began a civil-military dictatorship (1973-1990).

Activists walk to the General Cemetery to leave floral offerings and pay homage to the fallen during the dictatorship led by coup leader Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006).

Representatives from the Communist Party (PC), the Socialist Party (PS) and the Party for Democracy (PPD) held acts of commemoration for Allende at Morande 80 and at Constitution Square in front of the presidential palace "La Moneda."

"This is a date in which Chileans from the heart demand all truth, all justice because we believe that these situations should not be repeated in the country....there must be memory, reparation, all truth and all justice for that not to happen again," Communist Party member Samuel Navarro said.

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