On Sept. 11, 1973 a U.S.-backed coup in Chile led by General Augusto Pinochet ousted and killed Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende. What followed was a brutal, 17 year dictatorship by Pinochet.

Salvador Allende.
Listen to author Ariel Dorfman describe those events in a Democracy Now! interview and an interview with an Allende advisor.
For more 9/11 anniversaries, watch “A Fateful Day: 9/11 Also Marks Important Anniversaries in India, Guatemala, Haiti and Attica, NY” on Democracy Now!
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