MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Friday, June 5th 2026 - 23:06 UTC
The coup led by Pinochet ousted Allende and began a 17-year dictatorship (1973-1990) in which thousands of people were killed, disappeared or tortured.
Seven of the eight deputies of the National Libertarian Party (PNL), the far-right group founded by Johannes Kaiser, presented a resolution in Chile's Congress asking President José Antonio Kast to create a “Museum of Truth” devoted to what they describe as “the abuse, hunger and humiliation” of the Popular Unity government, led by Salvador Allende from 1970 until his overthrow on September 11, 1973.
The initiative, submitted on Monday —the same day Kast delivered his first state-of-the-nation address— is a resolution, so that, if approved, it would only reflect the chamber's position and ask the Executive to promote the venue. The text calls for instructing the Ministries of Cultures and Public Works and the National Monuments Council to install it and to collect testimonies and documents from the period. According to the document, the aim is to “preserve the complete and true historical memory” of the victims of shortages, political violence and the economic chaos of the period, and to educate new generations “without ideological bias, without convenient omissions and without the monopoly of a single narrative.”
