The myth that the United States toppled President Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973 lives. In 1975, a Senate subcommittee headed by Frank Church -- a stalwart Democrat and no friend of the Nixon ...
As they often did, the headlines in the New York Times brought more bad news the morning of September 12, 1973: “Allende Out, Reported Suicide. Marxist Regime in Chile Falls in Armed Forces Violent ...
The events of 1973 in Chile—the violent military overthrow of Salvador Allende, the country’s elected Marxist president, and the establishment of a 17-year dictatorship under Gen. Augusto ...
John Dinges’s revisionist account of Missing. The crew of Missing arriving for the screening at the 35th Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 1982.(Ralph Gatti / AFP via Getty Images) Just as I’m Still ...
(AP) As bombs fell and rebelling troops closed in on the national palace, socialist President Salvador Allende avoided surrender by shooting himself with an assault rifle, ending Chile’s experiment in ...
Twenty-five years after Chile's return to democracy, glorifying Augusto Pinochet has finally become taboo, but the country is still fighting to erase the social and political legacy of his ...
On Sept. 11, 1973, Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a violent coup.The dictatorship that followed under Gen. Augusto Pinochet lasted 17 years, leaving ...
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