Today is the 30th anniversary of the CIA-backed coup in Chile. Salvador Allende, the first freely elected socialist leader in the world, died and Augusto Pinochet assumed power. 3,000 people died or disappeared under Pinochet's rule.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/3199155.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/0,13755,1002974,00.html