The Chilean right wing continues to defend the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende

Chilean researcher Isabel Piper Shafir , a member of the CLACSO Steering Committee and a member of the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Chile, made a report for CLACSO Radio about the multiple demonstrations condemning the coup d'état of September 11, 1973 by General Augusto Pinochet against the constitutional president Salvador Allende.

While people in the streets remember the victims of state terrorism, security forces repress protests and the right wing continues to celebrate the overthrow of socialist president Salvador Allende. A full-page insert titled "On 9/11/1973, Chile was saved from becoming like Venezuela today" was published in the newspaper El Mercurio on September 11, 2019, the 46th anniversary of the coup.

During Pinochet's dictatorship, some 3.200 people died at the hands of state agents, of whom 1.192 are still listed as detained-disappeared, while another 40 were imprisoned or tortured for political reasons.

SEE ALSO: 46 Years After the Coup in Chile
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