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Pinochet Dictatorship

The coup d'état of September 11, 1973 brought an end to Chile’s experiment with democratic socialism.   The military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet would remain in power until 1990.  Click on the links below to learn more about the coup and the Pinochet dictatorship.

Stern, Steve J. 2013. "The Irony of Memory Politics in Post-Heroic Times: Chile and World Culture." This essay appears as the foreword to The Politics of Memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet, edited by Cath Collins, Katherine Hite, and Alfredo Joignant. Copyright © 2013 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher.

View military bombardment of La Moneda, the Chilean presidential palace, on September 11, 1973

Listen to the last words of Salvador Allende to the Chilean people, broadcast on Radio Magallanes on the day of the coup, September 11, 1973

View the documentary After Pinochet: The Healing of a Country's Wounded Heart (en inglés y español con subtítulos en inglés)

Villa Grimaldi Peace Park (ex-torture center, Spanish only)

Read the official 1991 report by the National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation on the human rights abuses of the Pinochet dictatorship

Evidence of the complicity of the United States government in the overthrow of Allende from the National Security Archive Page 1 | Page 2

Articles published in Chile by George Washington University scholar Peter Kornbluh concerning U.S. complicity in the overthrow of Allende (Spanish only)

Read article and view video from The Christian Science Monitor: “40 years later, Chile struggles with legacy of Pinochet coup”

Special edition of Le Monde Diplomatique commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the coup in Chile (Spanish only)