sep 11, 1973 - A coup against Chile's Marxist government overthrows Allende and puts an anti-communist government in power in Chile. This government is lead by Augusto Pinochet.

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"A military coup took place in Santiago in September, 1973. It left Allende Dead – probably by suicide – and a reliably anti-communist government in power headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Direct CIA complicity was never established, but Nixon and Kissinger openly welcomes the outcome… (Gaddis 2006, p. 178)

"By the time the CIA investigation got under way in 1975, however, Pinochet’s government had imprisoned, tortured, and executed thousands of Allende supports. Chile, for many years a democracy, now had one of the most repressive dictatorships Latin America had ever seen." (Gaddis 2006, p. 178)

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