DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
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Chile: learning from history
VICTOR ARELLANO-CANCINO and ROGER McKENZIE look at how the background and aftermath of the coup affect Chile today, as it struggles to set a new constitution
Painter Efren Cortes opens the door of his workshop after transporting his paintings, including one of the late President Salvador Allende, on a dolly from the Plaza de Armas, where he has been selling his paintings for over 30 years, in Santiago, Chile, August 31, 2023
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THE US-backed coup against elected Chilean president Salvador Allende was the culmination of a long campaign of sabotage paid for by the US administration of soon-to-be-disgraced president Richard Nixon.
Following the coup, more than 30,000 people were killed under Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship, with countless tortured and disappeared as the right-wing dictator implemented neoliberal “shock therapy” to the Chilean economy.
The memory of September 11 1973 and its aftermath continues to cast a long shadow over the nation’s history.
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