'In Chile there's no room, and there can be no room, for violence or fear,' President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday at a ceremony commemorating the 41st anniversary of the 1973 military coup and ...

Next Monday, September 11th, Chile will remember the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet which overthrew constitutionally elected president Salvador Allende ...

In 1973, the elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende of Chile was toppled in a right-wing military coup led by ...

The brutal military coup unseated the constitutionally elected president and declared a “state of war” on the country. Soldiers stormed factories and killed and detained hundreds of workers on the ...

Thoroughly reviewing the voluminous primary and secondary sources, Streeter concludes that the United States was not directly involved in the coup but that Washington helped create a climate of ...

particularly Chilean businessmen and the armed forces. On Wednesday, a few dozen right-wing protesters rallied in the streets of Santiago chanting for a Pinochet-style military coup, raising ...

The friendly chit-chat was over after a few minutes, as a relaxed General Augusto Pinochet, bedecked in his grey tunic and accompanied by a discreet military ... the Chile coup story is long ...