Hundreds gather in England and Wales to mark anniversary of brutal coup in Chile
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
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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.
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