Chile commemorates in the pain the inversion of Allende September 11, 1973, a military junta reversed the government of El Salvador Allende and Chile settled during a long time of dictatorship. Arrests, tortures, assassinations: three thousand people died or disappeared during the Pinochet years. Thirty years later, Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, Socialist, chose to commemorate officially the inversion of El Salvador Allende "to show in the world how much Chile changed since the return of the democracy". But this celebration is strongly criticized by the partisans of the Pinochet General, the opposition of right-hand side and the allies of the Christian democracy. The questions of the humans right and of repairs to the victims and to their families remain sensitive. Many denounces "assured immunity" with the of torture ones.
LeMonde