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Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende becomes the world's first democraticly elected Marxist president -
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Augusto Pinochets Dictatorship
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Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Ponichet ousts Allende in CIA-sponsored coup and proceeds to create a brutal dictatorship -
Augusto Ponichets crualty
According to various reports and investigations 1,200-3,200 people were killed, up to 80,000 were interned, and up to 30,000 were tortured by his regime including children and women. -
Constitutional draft
Ponichets regime is given a legal framework through a highly contriversial pebliste, which approved a new constitution drafted by a government appointed commision. -
loses referendum
Pinochet loses a referendum on whether he should stay in power or not. This led to a democratic election. -
Patricio Alywin
Patricio Alywin wins the presidential election and pinochet steps down as head of state but remaines commander-in-chief of army. -
Eduardo Frei
Eduardo Frei secceeds Alywin as president and begins to reduce the military influence in the government. -
Ponichet retires
Ponichet retires from the army and is made senator for life but is arrested in the UK at the request of spain on murder charges. -
ponichet returns to Chile
British Home Secretary Jack Straw decides that Pinochet is not fit to be extradited. Chilean courts strip Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution several times, but attempts to make him stand trial for elleged human rights offences fail, with the jidges concerns over his health. -
Pinochet dies
Pinochet dies wth 300 criminal charges still pending against him.
