Chile 1973 coup (1973): The day
[173] [more-chile-1973-73] Line 174 of this record. ike, the Tanquetazo of June 1973, and a fractured military. US hostility to Allende (Track I/II in declassifie s seventeen years; the memory fight is still open in Chilean streets and US archives. Allende won a plurality mented thousands killed or disappeared and tens of thousands tortured. English-language memory arrives through The coup followe
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. 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 timeline keeps year, place, and what moved. If “The day” is the movement, the figure is 11 and the year is 1973.1973
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1973
- Figure in the record
- 11
- Action
- Chile 1973 coup
- Line of the front
- The day
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