General Augusto Pinochet's rule violated human rights and brutally persecuted opponents, imprisoning and torturing thousands who were opposed to the regime. It Ieft a toll of 3,200 killed, including 1,469 disappeared.
President Gabriel Boric marks the 50th anniversary of the coup that toppled late President Salvador Allende, at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile. / Photo: AP
"A coup d’etat or the violation of the human rights of those who think differently is never justifiable," Boric said in his address to a nation where a significant number of people, according to numerous polls, believe the 1973 coup was justified, and that Pinochet, who died in 2006, was a good leader who helped to modernise the country.
US Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas Christopher J. Dodd was leading the US government delegation to Chile, according to the State Department. The US government backed the 1973 coup and the Chilean government is pushing Washington to declassify documents that could shed light on the era.
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