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Chilean Communist Party Parliament Member Proposes Law to Remove Pinochet Monuments | News | teleSUR English

15.9.17

Chilean Communist Party Parliament Member Proposes Law to Remove Pinochet Monuments | News | teleSUR English: The law would “arrange for the removal of those monuments that exalt the figure of people who were part of the military dictatorship, and where appropriate, rename those spaces located in national assets that currently pay homage to said people.”

“Today there are still public spaces, including spaces belonging to the state... that bear the names of military dictatorship members, accomplices in the dictatorship,” Cariola said according to the Chilean paper La Nacion

A military government led by Augusto Pinochet assumed power in Chile in 1973 following the U.S.-backed coup against the democratic socialist President Salvador Allende on September 11th. Cariola said that the coup “was one of the most painful and difficult moments in the history of our country.”


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