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September 11, 2020 Tribute to the Chilean People and Their Determined Struggle for Justice and PeaceSeptember 11 marked the 47th anniversary of the U.S. imperialists' coup d'état in Chile, in which the Pinochet regime brutally assassinated President Salvador Guillermo Allende and murdered, tortured and imprisoned thousands of people. Numerous commemorative activities took place worldwide in commemoration of this year's anniversary, at a time when the U.S. continues to organize and support violent coups such as in Honduras in 2009, and carry out subversive actions against the democratically elected governments of Latin American countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, which are exercising their right to choose their own political system, free from U.S. interference. We salute the Chilean people's resolute struggle to obtain justice for the crimes committed by the Pinochet regime and its American sponsors and their struggle today to rid themselves of the remnants of the Pinochet era and provide themselves with a new constitution. Montreal's Araucaria Cultural Centre organized the traditional reminder of the events of September 11 in Chile 47 years ago. Each year the Tree of Memory that grows in Jeanne-Mance Park brings together Chileans and the friends of the Chilean people.
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