The forgotten September 11th: An American-backed coup d’état in
Chile overthrows the democratically elected Marxist Salvador
Allende and his government. Allende would commit suicide the
same day. In his place, the country was ruled with a military
junta/dictatorship run by Augusto Pinochet. The new regime had a
record of human rights violations. Tens of thousands of Chilean
citizens would be deprived of rights, torturted, and killed from
1973 to its demise seventeen years later in 1990. September 11,
1973 - 38 years ago today.