Can you please give me some information on the US-sponsored coup in Chile by Pin

Question: Can you please give me some information on the US-sponsored coup in Chile by Pinochet!.!?

can you please give me some information on the US-sponsored coup in Chile by Pinochet!. I know it was on the 11th of September 1973 but can you please give me some back ground information like what it was about and what happened please and thank-you =]Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The Chilean coup d'état of 1973 was a watershed event in the history of Chile and the Cold War!. Historians and partisans alike have wrangled over its implications ever since!.

On September 11, 1973, less than two months after the first failed coup attempt (Tanquetazo), and less than a month after the Chamber of Deputies, where the Opposition held a majority, condemned Allende's alleged breaches of the constitution, the Chilean military overthrew president Salvador Allende, who died during the coup!. US intervention in Chilean politics and support to opponents of Allende, including support for an assassination, has been documented by the declassification in 1998 of documents concerning the Project FUBELT operations, although its exact nature is still controversial!. General Augusto Pinochet took over and established an anti-communist military dictatorship which lasted until 1990!.

It has sometimes been argued that the removal of the democratically-elected socialist Allende by the US-backed Pinochet, among other factors, led the Soviet Union to partially step away from détente, and pursue a more ambitious foreign policy concerning Third World influence!. As such the coup may have had a considerable geopolitical impact!.
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