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September 11, 1973. General Augusto Pinochet with the help of the U.S. CIA, Nixon, Kissinger, and several multinational companies overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. The official reports said Allende killed himself, but opponents of the right-wing dictatorship always had their doubts that it was suicide. Countless friends of Allende (including Americans) were rounded up and "disappeared." Pinochet's henchmen set off a car bomb in Washington DC shortly thereafter, killing one of Allende's former associates and an American.
sirreal13September 11, 1973. General Augusto Pinochet with the help of the U.S. CIA, Nixon, Kissinger, and several multinational companies overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. The official reports said Allende killed himself, but opponents of the right-wing dictatorship always had their doubts that it was suicide. Countless friends of Allende (including Americans) were rounded up and "disappeared." Pinochet's henchmen set off a car bomb in Washington DC shortly thereafter, killing one of Allende's former associates and an American.
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Date: 2002-09-12 07:42 am (UTC)From:Orlando Letelier, former ambassador to the United States, is murdered by a car bomb in Washington D.C. along with his assistant, U.S. citizen Ronnie Moffit. This occurs less than two weeks after the military Junta revoked Letelier's Chilean citizenship. Letelier, who had been Defense Minister under President Salvador Allende, was taken prisoner by the military on the day of the coup and later exiled. He was a vocal opponent of Pinochet while residing in the U.S. where he worked at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C."
The full chronology is available at the Chilean Human Right website: http://www.chip.cl/derechos/1973_eng.html