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‘The enemy worked from the darkness’
Two Chilean refugees, JUANI COLQUE and SYLVIA VELASQUEZ, tell Roger McKenzie how they experienced the US-backed coup on September 11 1973 that installed the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet
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JUANI COLQUE was an activist with the Popular Unitary Action Movement and worked as a chemical analyst in the animal food factory Ralston Purina.
“That fateful morning on September 11, I arrived as best I could to my workplace, Ralston Purina in Limache, the first company to be nationalised, by [Salvador] Allende’s regime.
“Before 7am the marines were already occupying the train station. Fortunately, a relative took us through roads, almost unsuitable for vehicles, to the factory.
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