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Chile 1973 coup (1990): Aylwin inauguration

[170] [more-chile-1973-70] Chile 1973 coup is the record of 1990 under “Aylwin inauguration.” The figure to read with it is 03. Do not arrange states in a league. Fix who moved what, and where, to that year. Do not add a later war into the same total. Editorial synthesis; prefer primary agencies for decisions.

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. Allende won a plurality in 1970. Land reform, nationalisations, and a Cold War reading in Washington and in the Chilean right produced a pre-coup crisis, not a sudden whim.

The military's constitutionalist commander, General Prats, resigned in August 1973; Pinochet's rise was inside that vacuum. Navy, air force, and army moved. La Moneda was isolated and attacked. Allende's last broadcast is a primary source. This paragraph names a sequence; it does not teach one.

Foreign journalists and the stadium as a detention site entered the first week's record. DINA, exile, the 1980 constitution, the 1988 plebiscite that Pinochet lost -- a long afterlife of 11 September. The 1990 concertacion transition left Pinochet as army commander for years -- an unfinished civilian control story.

Say Chile 1973 coup with 1990, “Aylwin inauguration,” and 03. The figure is not a national score.1990

Figures to keep

Year of the action
1990
Figure in the record
03
Action
Chile 1973 coup
Line of the front
Aylwin inauguration

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