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Rosalia Soto wears a T-shirt with a portrait of her brother Antonio Soto, who was detained and disappeared during the regime of general Augusto Pinochet, as she touches a photo of another disappeared person during a ceremony in Santiago, Thursday, September 7, 2023
HUNDREDS of people in England and Wales mobilised at the weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of the brutal military coup in Chile.
On September 11 1973, the democratically elected left-wing government of president Salvador Allende was overthrown by the military, led by General Augusto Pinochet and assisted by the US Central Intelligence Agency. Thousands of people were murdered.
Britain, under an international agreement, was one of the countries that welcomed Chilean political activists who fled into exile.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
KATE CLARK recalls an occasion when the president of the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers might just have saved a Chilean prisoner’s life
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile