[1/5] A woman dressed in black holds a candle as she walks around La Moneda presidential palace during an event ahead of the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Chilean military coup, in Santiago, Chile, September 10, 2023.
Victims of military rule and their families have ramped up a push for justice and accountability, but politically the far-right has gained ground amid growing fears over rising crime.
"Some people don't know anything about what happened and aren't interested, others are tired that...even after 50 years, many people still don't know what happened to their disappeared relatives," said Elvira Cádiz, who was six years old in 1973.
According to various Chilean human rights commissions, there are 40,175 victims classified as politically executed, disappeared, imprisoned and tortured during military rule.
"We don't know if we will achieve complete justice, but what we do have to do is get to the truth, find out where they are."
Persons:
Carlos Barria, Augusto Pinochet, Salvador Allende, Gabriel Boric, aren't, Elvira Cádiz, Boric, he's, Allende's, Pinochet, José Antonio Kast, Cristián Valdivieso, Allende, Pinochet's, Gaby Rivera, Luis Rivera, Argentina's Alberto Fernández, Colombia's Gustavo Petro, Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Carlos Gonzalez, Natalia Ramos, Adam Jourdan, Mark Heinrich Our
Organizations:
REUTERS, Rights, Hawker Hunter, Reuters, Thomson
Locations:
La, Santiago , Chile, Chile, South America, Estación Central, Santiago, Allende