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C Chile 1973 coup

Forces

Historical forces and institutions of Chile 1973 coup -- not a live order of battle.

Educational history. Casualty figures are documented ranges. This is not operational advice, a ranking of nations, or a how-to for weapons or coups.

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

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.

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

1

UP government

1970-73: Reform, crisis, polarisation. Named as historical geography of Chile 1973 coup, not as a targeting list.

2

The day

11 Sep 1973: Services move; palace attacked. Named as historical geography of Chile 1973 coup, not as a targeting list.

3

Terror and rewrite

1973-80: DINA; 1980 constitution. Named as historical geography of Chile 1973 coup, not as a targeting list.

4

Protest and No

1983-88: Days of protest; the plebiscite. Named as historical geography of Chile 1973 coup, not as a targeting list.

5

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.

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