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Remembering Carlos Prats, assassinated in exile 50 years after Chile coup

Original: Carlos Prats was a minister in Salvador Allende's government of # Chile ; he went into exile after the US-backed coup, h

Posts are marking the anniversary of the assassination of Carlos Prats, a minister and army commander under Chilean president Salvador Allende. After the US-backed coup of September 1973, Prats went into exile in Argentina, where he and his wife Sofía Cuthbert were killed by a car bomb on this day in 1974, an attack widely attributed to agents of the Pinochet regime.

Why now: It is the anniversary of the 1974 car bomb assassination of Carlos Prats and his wife.

Carlos PratsSalvador AllendeChileAugusto PinochetArgentina

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