Chile: Ten Years of Pinochet

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On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military, led by General Augusto Pinochet, overthrew the Marxist-dominated government of Salvador Allende in a bloody coup. This summer, exactly a decade later, onlookers had a sense of deja vu. Once again Chile was on the front pages of the world press, and once again Santiago's hotels were filled with foreign correspondents waiting for the government to topple.