Elected government broken by force
The constitutional fact of the day.
A one-day seizure with a seventeen-year occupation of the state. Teach both clocks.
The palace attack is a fact in the record -- described, not diagrammed as a method.
Principles
Commissioned truth
Rettig/Valech as a later state accounting.
1988 No
A peaceful electoral end to a violent beginning.
DINA
The dictatorship's secret police in the early years. Read as a 11 September 1973 (coup day; dictatorship 1973-1990) concept in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context.
Rettig / Valech
Official truth commissions on killing and torture. Not a present instruction.
Steps
- Allende elected
1970-09: A plurality; Congress confirms him.
A past political-military date in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context -- history of Chile 1973 coup, not a method for seizing a capital.
- Truckers' strike
1972-10: A long economic-political crisis marker.
A past political-military date in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context -- history of Chile 1973 coup, not a method for seizing a capital.
- Tanquetazo
1973-06-29: Failed armour revolt.
A past political-military date in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context -- history of Chile 1973 coup, not a method for seizing a capital.
- Prats resigns
1973-08: Constitutionalist commander out; Pinochet up.
A past political-military date in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context -- history of Chile 1973 coup, not a method for seizing a capital.
- The coup
1973-09-11: La Moneda; Allende dead; junta.
A past political-military date in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context -- history of Chile 1973 coup, not a method for seizing a capital.
- Stadium and DINA
1973-09+: Mass detention and the secret-police years.
A past political-military date in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context -- history of Chile 1973 coup, not a method for seizing a capital.
Diagrams
From Allende elected (1970-09) through Stadium and DINA (1973-09+) to Rettig / Valech (1991 / 2004) in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context. One sequence, not a staff overlay.
Salvador Allende (President) and Augusto Pinochet (Junta / dictator) sit at the centre of most English accounts; Henry Kissinger and Patricio Aylwin correct the usual photograph.
Limits
Source limits
Figures such as "Allende dead 11 Sep; later dictatorship killings and disappearances in the thousands (Rettig / Valech ranges)" stay in ranges because records are incomplete, political, or still closed. How many were killed? is answered as a band.
No how-to
Chile 1973 coup is political-military history. This page does not teach how to move units through a capital or how to seize a ministry.
Memory bias
English-language fame of Chile 1973 coup and local memory in Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context are not the same map. Patricio Aylwin is often the correction the first photograph drops.
This section does not teach how to isolate a capital or bomb a palace.
The "campaign" after 11 September was repression and, later, a plebiscite.