9/11/1973

CIA-backed coup ousts and murders elected marxist president. During the fighting, the military demanded that President allende surrender, and made a perfunctory offer to fly him and his family out of the country. In a now famous audiotape of General Pinochet issuing instructions to his troops via radio communications on September 11, he is heard to laugh and sweat "that plane will never land." Forecasting the savagery of his regime, Pincohet added: " Kill the bitch and you eliminate the litter." Salvador Allende was found dead from gunshot wounds in his inner office around 2:00 p.m. At 2:300 p.m., the armed forces radio network broadcast an announcement that La Moneda had "surrendered" and that the enitre country was under military control. Thousands are rounded up into a sports stadium and massacred. Ironically, the terrorist coup is on September 11.

The Pinochet File