Allende's inauguration, began plotting to bring him down just 72 hours after he took office. ''The Pinochet File,'' a new book by Peter Kornbluh, a researcher at the nonprofit National Security Archive, presents declassified documents showing that the Nixon administration, which had tried to block Mr. Yet our nation's hands have not always been clean, and it is important to recall Chile's Sept. 11 will forever be a day to remember our victims of terrorism. In Argentina, a new president has just annulled two amnesty laws that the military forced through Congress after the ''dirty war'' ended in 1983.
In Peru, the truth commission investigating the guerrilla wars of the 1980's and 1990's just released a report concluding that more than 69,000 people were killed or made to disappear.
Chile's president, Ricardo Lagos, is proposing a truth commission to look into reports of torture, special judges to find the disappeared, new pensions for victims' families and an amnesty program for former soldiers who tell where the bodies are buried.Ĭhile is not the only country in South America focused today on the crimes of decades ago. The face of Salvador Allende, the overthrown Socialist president, is everywhere, and now behind La Moneda is a new statue of him wrapped in the Chilean flag. Now, after decades of silence, Chileans are protesting in the streets for the reversal of amnesty laws that block prosecutions for the killings after the coup. 11.īut the year was 1973, the building Chile's White House, La Moneda, and the event a coup staged by Gen.
A building - a symbol of the nation - collapsed in flames in an act of terror that would lead to the deaths of 3,000 people.
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