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Question: Does any one know what happened in chile on the 11/09/1973!?
also do you know
who was salvador allende!?
who was general pinochet!?
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From mid-August 1973 there had been rumblings of a coup brewing in Chile - the economy was suffering due to the withdrawal of foreign investment in the democratically-elected state!. At 4am on 11 September, a date that is now synonymous with strikes against democracy, military units stationed throughout Chile reported for action to the leaders of the coup, led by Augusto Pinochet2!. By 7am, these troops were being deployed, their aim to wrest the urban centres of Chile from local politicians!. The most effective operation was carried out in ConcepciĆ³n, the country's third largest city - the military had cut all the phone lines of governmental personnel and had rounded everyone up and placed them on an island to keep them from communicating what had happened to the rest of the world!. Once these key players had been removed, the city slipped into military hands!. The whole operation took less than 85 minutes to execute!.

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Yes!. The US government sponsored a military coup in Chile, which overthrew the democratically-elected socialist Salvador Allende in order to establish the military dictatorship of General Pinochet!. Large numbers of torture and desaparecidos (disappeared) followed!. Countless Chileans were guilty by association, and anybody remotely connected to "radical" ideas or people was interrogated, intimidated, tortured, or killed!. This was all done in the name of "freedom!." Www@QuestionHome@Com

The date is September 11, 1973 although in Chile they would express it the way you did!. On that date President Salvador Allende died, overthrown by his loyal friend and head of the military then, Gen!. Augusto Pinochet!. Please try Google again!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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