Chile 1973 coup (1973): Terror and rewrite
[174] [more-chile-1973-74] Chile 1973 coup is the record of 1973 under “Terror and rewrite.” The figure to read with it is 80. 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. Official counts enter the public record.
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 1973, “Terror and rewrite,” and 80. The figure is not a national score.1973
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1973
- Figure in the record
- 80
- Action
- Chile 1973 coup
- Line of the front
- Terror and rewrite
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