Human-cost band
Allende dead 11 Sep; later dictatorship killings and disappearances in the thousands (Rettig / Valech ranges)
Allende dead on the day; thousands killed or disappeared; tens of thousands tortured -- commission ranges. Exile emptied a generation of professionals.
Letelier in Washington is a cost that crossed borders.
Bands
Dated span (11 September 1973 (coup day; dictatorship 1973-1990))
Chile 1973 coup is taught as 11 September 1973 (coup day; dictatorship 1973-1990). 1970-09 and 1991 / 2004 are the usual poles.
Theatre (Santiago and Chilean armed services; US.)
Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context is the geography of the ledger -- cities, seas, plants, or ministries as the file requires.
Tanquetazo
1973-06-29: Failed armour revolt.
Plebiscite No
1988-10-05: Pinochet loses the continuation vote.
Regions
Santiago and Chilean armed services
Core theatre of Chile 1973 coup (11 September 1973 (coup day; dictatorship 1973-1990)). A long economic-political crisis marker.
UP government
1970-73: Reform, crisis, polarisation.
Terror and rewrite
1973-80: DINA; 1980 constitution.
Transition memory
1990-: Commissions, London arrest (1998), street argument.
US / UK / AU / CA classrooms
English hours on Chile 1973 coup (11 September 1973 (coup day; dictatorship 1973-1990)) are thin beside Chile 1973 film and a paragraph on Lisbon 1974; Seoul 1979 is thinner still.
Korean comparative reader
Chile 1973 coup is a comparative officers' file beside 12 December 1979 -- three morals, no method.
Key numbers
Span11 September 1973 (coup day; dictatorsh.
Cost bandAllende dead 11 Sep; later dictatorship.
TheatreSantiago and Chilean armed services; US.
Hero article1973 Chilean coup d'etat
Makers
Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende (President) is a named maker of the Chile 1973 coup story. Physician-Marxist president of a plurality coalition; died 11 September 1973 in La Moneda. His last broadcast is a primary source.
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet (Junta / dictator) is a named maker of the Chile 1973 coup story. Army commander who headed the regime until the 1988 loss and 1990 handover. Arrested in London in 1998 -- a late legal afterlife.
Carlos Prats
Carlos Prats (Army commander (to Aug 1973)) is a named maker of the Chile 1973 coup story. The constitutionalist who resigned in August and was later murdered in exile (Buenos Aires, 1974).
Jose T. Merino
Jose T. Merino (Navy) is a named maker of the Chile 1973 coup story. A junta principal; the navy's role on 11 September is part of the services' shared act.
Gustavo Leigh
Gustavo Leigh (Air force) is a named maker of the Chile 1973 coup story. Ordered air action against La Moneda; later fell out with Pinochet (1978).
Orlando Letelier
Orlando Letelier (Diplomat / exile) is a named maker of the Chile 1973 coup story. Allende's ambassador and minister, assassinated in Washington in 1976 -- a crime that brought the dictatorship onto US streets.
The 1980s protest dead and the 1988 No are part of the same bill's last pages.
Economic "miracle" arguments cannot cancel the commission ledgers.