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Chile marks military coup as divisions continue

2023-09-11 19:00
The left-wing government has condemned the 1973 coup but the opposition accuses it of fuelling divisions.
Chile marks military coup as divisions continue

Fifty years ago today, Chile's presidential palace, La Moneda, was bombed as part of the military coup to overthrow the country's democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende.

By the end of that fateful 11 September 1973, President Allende was dead and a military junta had seized...