Unidad Popular
Allende's 1970-73 coalition government. A faction or legal office in the Chile 1973 coup file -- past politics, not a present directory.
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale20
Intensity55
Duration35
Tech shift15
Political impact68
Cultural memory62
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Quick answers
Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
How many were killed?
Allende on the day; thereafter thousands killed or disappeared (Rettig and later updates) and tens of thousands tortured (Valech). Use commission ranges, not a single slogan integer.
Did the United States run the coup?
The US government opposed Allende and the declassified record shows covert political action and contacts. The operation on 11 September was executed by Chilean services. Historians argue about degrees of involvement; they do not treat it as a US amphibious landing.
How did Allende die?
The consensus of official investigations and most historians is suicide during the attack on La Moneda. Some memory camps still dispute the image. This page follows the mainstream historical account and names the dispute.
What was the Tanquetazo?
A 29 June 1973 failed armoured rising -- a warning rehearsal, not the September coup itself.
When did the dictatorship end?
The 1988 plebiscite rejected Pinochet's continuation; Patricio Aylwin took office in 1990. Pinochet remained army commander until 1998.
Chilean Army, Navy, Air Force, and Carabineros as the services that moved -- a historical description of who broke the constitution, not a current ORBAT.
US influence is political-intelligence context in the declassified record, not a landing force.
Systems
Tanquetazo
29 June 1973 failed armour revolt -- a preface.
DINA
The dictatorship's secret police in the early years.
Salvador Allende as centre
Physician-Marxist president of a plurality coalition; died 11 September 1973 in La Moneda. His last broadcast is a primary source.
Carlos Prats as legal object
The constitutionalist who resigned in August and was later murdered in exile (Buenos Aires, 1974).
Civilian / alliance context
Patricio Aylwin (Transition president): Took office in 1990; commissioned Rettig. The civilian afterlife of a military day. Named as history, not as a remote-control cartoon.
Meters
Geographic / demographic scale
20
Peak political violence
55
How long it defined a period
35
Tech or method shift
15
Borders, regimes, law, alliances
68
Film, school, ritual density
62
Hotspots
UP government
1970-73: Reform, crisis, polarisation. Named as historical geography of Chile 1973 coup, not as a targeting list.
The day
11 Sep 1973: Services move; palace attacked. Named as historical geography of Chile 1973 coup, not as a targeting list.
Terror and rewrite
1973-80: DINA; 1980 constitution. Named as historical geography of Chile 1973 coup, not as a targeting list.
Protest and No
1983-88: Days of protest; the plebiscite. Named as historical geography of Chile 1973 coup, not as a targeting list.
Transition memory
1990-: Commissions, London arrest (1998), street argument. Named as historical geography of Chile 1973 coup, not as a targeting list.
Materials
Chronology (11 September 1973 (coup day; dictatorship 1973-1990))
Chile 1973 coup is bounded as 11 September 1973 (coup day; dictatorship 1973-1990). 1970-09 opens the usual narrative (Allende elected); 1991 / 2004 closes it (Rettig / Valech).
Theatre: Santiago and Chilean armed services; US politic.
Place is evidence. Santiago and Chilean armed services; US political context is where Chile 1973 coup happened -- a map for readers, not a guide for repeating it.
Human-cost band
Allende dead 11 Sep; later dictatorship killings and disappearances in the thousands (Rettig / Valech ranges) Keep the figure as a range. Spectacle integers are not a census.
La Moneda
The presidential palace attacked on 11 September. A material of the Chile 1973 coup vocabulary, dated to 11 September 1973 (coup day; dictatorship 1973-1990).
No order-of-battle for a present Chilean military, and no seizure sequence as instruction.
DINA is named as a past crime institution.