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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Allende & Pinochet

Suprisingly, two of the most famous leaders of Chile in recent memory are barely mentioned anywhere around the capitol. The only mention of Salvador Allende that I came across was a statue in front of Palacio de La Moneda in the Plaza de La Constitución:




The only mention of Augusto Pinochet that I found, other than a photo essay about protests against his government in the National Archives, was this plaque that was mounted on the wall at the National History Museum:

Posted by Mike Whitton at 10:50 PM

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