Chile on Monday was commemorating the 50th anniversary of the coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet
The commemoration began with a ceremony at the La Moneda presidential palace, which was bombed by warplanes at the start of the coup.
Those divisions spilled into the streets over the weekend, when a peaceful protest by thousands of Chileans to remember those disappeared and killed by the dictatorship was marred by violence. A small group of masked individuals threw rocks at windows. “They broke windows and indiscriminately attacked groups and members of political parties.” Boric went on to write that “as president of the Republic, I categorically condemn these acts,” adding that their “intolerance and violence shouldn’t have a place in democracy.”think the 1973 coup was justified, and continue to see Pinochet as a good leader who helped to modernize the country.
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