Importance of the 1973 Coup d'état in Chile

It involved the overthrow of the left-wing government led by President Salvador Allende, marking the end of one of the most stable and balanced democracies in the region during that epoch.

Deposition of the constitutional president Allende and his immediate suicide

It also triggered the death of Allende and the establishment of a dictatorship that used state terrorism to subdue the opposition and implement its government plan without limitations.

The economic crisis hit Allende's administration hard, and then, the armed forces and the carabinieri, supported by the United States and the CIA who provided the financial financing, deposed the president who ended up committing suicide in the middle of the attack on the government palace.

Installation of a bloody dictatorship headed by General Pinochet

The coup military, and those who internationally supported the coup, promoted the disappearance of communism and the installation of a new economic plan, and the only The way to achieve this was to force the departure of the democratic president who represented the ideals opposites.

Immediately afterwards, a military government was established, characteristics dictatorial and repressive, led by General Augusto Pinochet, and who would remain in charge of the executive until 1990.

During the Pinochet dictatorship, violations were committed against human rights, torture, and deaths, by order of the Chilean dictatorial government, suppression of political groups, the dissolution of the Parliament, persecution of opponents who in many cases had to go into exile and limitation of the exercise of freedom of press.

Added to this is the controversial death of Allende to this day, because many believed and believe that it was not he committed suicide but they support the hypotheses of a murder and the simulation of suicide, or the induction of suicide.

State terrorism and curtailment of individual liberties

Without a doubt, the coup and the government it fostered occupied the darkest part of Chile's political history, not only because of the mentioned deaths and exiles that he provoked among the opponents, but also because the ordinary citizen lived in a time of terror and absolute limitation of individual freedoms, one of the most emblematic measures in this sense being the curfew that remained valid until 1987.

Pinochet was sued in dozens of cases for committing crimes against humanity, appropriating millions from the state, and for evading taxes, Spain even requested his arrest.

He served time in house arrest since his defense argued that the soldier suffered from a complex state of health to serve imprisonment in jail, a situation accepted by justice, and in those conditions he died in 2006.

Photography (1) Salvador Allende by Fotolia Toniflap