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The relative of a person who was executed during Chile's dictatorship places a flower on the east side door of La Moneda presidential palace, through which the body of President Salvador Allende was carried by soldiers and firefighters 50 years ago after the military coup that toppled his government in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Chile president defends democracy 50 years after coup ushered in brutal military dictatorship
By EVA VERGARA and DANIEL POLITI - Associated Press
Mon,09/11/23-10:49AM , 86 Reads
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The president of Chile issued a fervent defense of democracy on Monday, the 50th anniversary of the coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that ushered in a brutal military dictatorship for almost two decades.
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Former Chilean dictator and then-military commander Gen. Augusto Pinochet is embraced by a supporter as he meets with supporters who gathered at his home to greet him on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of his taking the post as head of the Chilean armed forces, in Santiago, Chile, Aug. 23, 1995. As Chile marks the 50th anniversary Monday, Sept. 11, 2023 of the coup that brought Pinochet to power, polling shows more than one-third of Chileans today justify the military takeover of a democratically elected government that went on to violate human rights, murder opponents, cancel elections, restrict the media, suppress labor unions and disband political parties. (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin, FILE)

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A half-century after Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup, some in Chile remember the dictatorship fondly
By EVA VERGARA and DANIEL POLITI - Associated Press
Tue,09/05/23-1:07AM , 69 Reads
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism.
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A truck carries salt used as part of lithium processing at the Albemarle lithium mine in Chile's Atacama desert, Monday, April 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Chile's plan for state control in lithium dismays business
By EVA VERGARA and DANIEL POLITI - Associated Press
Fri,04/21/23-6:26PM , 87 Reads
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Chilean government’s newly announced plan to have the state take a majority stake in the lithium industry disconcerted business leaders, though analysts cautioned that the proposal appears to try to strike a middle ground between competing interests.
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