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September 11: Remembering the Resistance to Pinochet’s Chile
On September 11, 1973, tanks rumbled over the streets of Santiago, Chile. Planes bombed La Moneda, the presidential palace, as US-backed General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected President Salvador Allende. It was a dark, dark moment in Chile’s history. Pinochet would unleash a bloody regime that would grip power until 1990. During his rule, thousands were rounded up, detained, tortured, and executed.
But there was resistance.
In this special bonus episode of Stories of Resistance, we showcase four different vignettes of people standing up to the evil in which Pinochet…
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