Chile marks 53 years of Pinochet coup amid clashes over military legacy

Each year, September 11th asks Chile the same unanswerable question: what does a nation owe its own wounds? Fifty-three years after Augusto Pinochet's US-backed military coup dismantled Salvador Allende's elected government and inaugurated seventeen years of dictatorship, Chileans gathered again to reckon with that history — and found the reckoning itself under threat. With a far-right government now in power, many citizens fear that the moral weight of the coup is being quietly renegotiated, and that the street clashes marking this anniversary were less about the past than they were a warning