Chile 1973 coup (1973): The coup — Section 733: The coup

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. Cross-checking field checklists against the comparison lab shows that metric 09 under “The coup” for Chile 1973 coup never acts in isolation; it shifts alongside structural constraints and local standards.

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.