UP government
Reform, crisis, polarisation.
1970's election and the 1972-73 crisis are the necessary preface. A coup without a crisis story is a cartoon.
The Tanquetazo is the June warning.
Timeline
- Allende elected
A plurality; Congress confirms him.
- Truckers' strike
A long economic-political crisis marker.
- Tanquetazo
Failed armour revolt.
- Prats resigns
Constitutionalist commander out; Pinochet up.
- The coup
La Moneda; Allende dead; junta.
- Stadium and DINA
Mass detention and the secret-police years.
- Constitution
The regime writes its legal afterlife.
- Plebiscite No
Pinochet loses the continuation vote.
- Aylwin inauguration
Civilian transition begins.
- Rettig / Valech
Official counts enter the public record.
Eras
The day
Services move; palace attacked.
Terror and rewrite
DINA; 1980 constitution.
Protest and No
Days of protest; the plebiscite.
Transition memory
Commissions, London arrest (1998), street argument.
Milestones
Elected government broken by force
The constitutional fact of the day.
Commissioned truth
Rettig/Valech as a later state accounting.
1988 No
A peaceful electoral end to a violent beginning.
11 September is a day; 1990 is a transition, not a full stop in memory.
London 1998 showed that the file could reopen in foreign law.