Sept. 11 marks a dark day in the history of Chile. In 1973 the leftist government of Salvador Allende was brutally overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup that left the president dead, followed by the rounding up, torture, killing, disappearance, and exile of thousands of Chileans over the next decades.
The military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet was to scar the nation, but resistance within the country and internationally never let up.
teleSUR takes a look at the coup, along with the popular president's trajectory.