This event was encouraged by the secret Project FUBELT. Members of the Weather Underground bombed ITT Corporation for supporting this event.
This event was encouraged by the secret Project FUBELT. Members of the Weather Underground bombed ITT Corporation for supporting this event. Charles Horman was killed during it, a death that was the subject of the Costa-Gavras film Missing. During this event, Defense Minister Orlando Letelier was arrested and tortured. Following this event, the Caravan of Death killed numerous individuals. Its target, the head of the Popular Unity Party, apparently committed suicide in the presidential palace, La Moneda. For 10 points, name this 1973 event that overthrew the first democratically elected Marxist president in South America and led to Augusto Pinochet seizing power.
This event was encouraged by the secret Project FUBELT. Members of the Weather Underground bombed ITT Corporation for supporting this event.
1973 Chilean coup d'etat [or September 11, 1973, coup in Chile; accept answers like overthrowing Salvador Allende; accept Pinochet's coup before "Pinochet" is read]