[Info] September 11, 1973-U.S. backed Coup in Chile
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on September 12, 2014 9:20 PM in Reflections
September 11, 1973
Chile’s armed forces staged a coup d’etat
against the government of President Salvador Allende,
the first democratically elected socialist
head of state in Latin America.
Some three thousand were held in Santiago’s
national stadium where guards singled out
folksinger Victor Jara as he continued to sing protest songs.
Jara was viciously beaten, and his mutilated body machine-gunned
in front of the other prisoners.
The U.S. government,
through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
had worked for three years to foment the coup against Allende.
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