With the idea of ”redressing a historical injustice,” the Spanish government approved the revocation of a military decoration awarded to Chilean Augusto Pinochet in 1975. This, after fifty years of coup that overthrew Salvador Allende.
“With this withdrawal of the Grand Cross for Military Merit, awarded at the time by the Franco regime, our country is making progress in the context of democratic obligations, (…) with rights and freedoms,” he announced at a conference in the United States. said government spokesperson Isabel Rodríguez after the cabinet meeting in which the decision was made.
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The measure had been put forward on Monday evening by the president of the government, Socialist Pedro Sánchez, who said in a message on the social network X (formerly Twitter) that “the time had come to right a historical injustice”.
Augusto Pinochet led the coup that led to the suicide of Salvador Allende in 1973
“Fifty years ago, Chilean democracy was the victim of a brutal attack that shook the world,” Sánchez added, referring to the coup that overthrew Allende on September 11, 1973 and established Pinochet’s dictatorship, which lasted until 1990.
Pinochet received the Grand Cross for Military Merit in 1975, when Spain was still under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975).
Augusto Pinochet, who died in 2006, was the only head of state to attend the funeral of dictator Francisco Franco, who died in Madrid on November 20, 1975. (JO)
Source: Eluniverso
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