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Last known photo showing President Salvador Allende alive

Today 30 years ago - September 11, 1973 - Augusto Pinochet overthrew Chile's Allende governement and installed one of the worst Washington-backed dictatorships in South America. Allende was the world's first democratically-elected Marxist head of state.

With Pinochet out of power for 13 years now, the public still is deeply split, most perpetrators are still at large, and though the current government stresses that Chile is just a normal country and there are signs of reconciliation, still few are the indicators how to handle the country's past.

For a moment in the late 1990ies, there was hope justice could be served when Britain detained Pinochet in order to extradite him to Spain, where judge Baltasar Garzon wanted to put him on trial for murder, torture and genozide, but Britain freed him - for "humanitarian reasons".

RESOURCES IN SPANISH
La Tercera: cobertura minuto a minuto tal como si fuera hoy
El Pais Digital: Las Victimas del General
Universidad de Alicante: Proceso a Pinochet
El Mundo: La extradicion de Pinochet
Crimenes e Impunidad: La experiencia del trabajo en la violacion del Derecho a la Vida - Chile 1973-1996
CIA informes: Desde Pinochet y Kissinger

RESOURCES IN ENGLISH
BBC On this Day: President overthrown in Chile coup