A divided Chile marks 50 years since Pinochet’s bloody military coup

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chile today  marks 50 years since a violent coup by Augusto Pinochet against socialist President Salvador Allende ushered in two decades of military rule, saw thousands killed and seeded the country’s market-led economic model.

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