Chile 1973 coup (1972): Truckers' strike
[41] [chile-1973-1-41] The coup followed three years of polarisation: Allende's Unidad Popular programme, economic crisis, the Octobe On a timeline, write the date and place of Chile 1973 coup before any adjective of victory. Year 1972, line “Truckers' strike,” figure 10. Do not read the dead as points. Allende won a plurality in 1970. Land reform, nationalisations, and a Cold War reading in Washi
The coup followed three years of polarisation: Allende's Unidad Popular programme, economic crisis, the October 1972 strike, the Tanquetazo of June 1973, and a fractured military. US hostility to Allende (Track I/II in declassified files) is part of the context; it is not a complete remote-control explanation of 11 September. Chilean officers made the day.
Rettig and Valech commissions later documented thousands killed or disappeared and tens of thousands tortured. English-language memory arrives through Missing, The Battle of Chile, and 9/11 date-confusion with 2001. This page is political-military history -- causes, named actors, documented crimes -- not a manual for seizing a palace.
A palace, a junta, and a long dictatorship 11 September was a day; the regime was seventeen years; the memory fight is still open in Chilean streets and US archives. The military's constitutionalist commander, General Prats, resigned in August 1973; Pinochet's rise was inside that vacuum.
The timeline keeps year, place, and what moved. If “Truckers' strike” is the movement, the figure is 10 and the year is 1972.1972
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1972
- Figure in the record
- 10
- Action
- Chile 1973 coup
- Line of the front
- Truckers' strike
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