At a meeting with his Chilean counterpart, Gabriel Boric, in New York, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed the need to deepen cooperation with Latin American states. Source: Office of the President Details: The presidents discussed the possibility of organising a Ukraine-Latin America summit for further rapprochement of the countries.
A day after violence and arson marred a memorial march, Chile marked 50 years since the coup d'etat that brought Augusto Pinochet to power with events Monday honoring the dictatorship's thousands of victims.But the procession was marred by vandals causing damage to the exterior of La Moneda and the general cemetery that houses a victims' memorial.
Chileans marching to commemorate the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, 50 years after the coup d'etat that brought him to power, clashed with police Sunday and committed acts of arson in Santiago.There were also clashes with police at other points during the march, with some marchers hurling molotov cocktails and setting up burning barricades.
The presidents of Chile and Mexico called for the strengthening of democracy in Latin America during a joint address on Sunday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a 1973 coup in Chile, hours after a peaceful march culminated in violent clashes with police. Monday will mark half a century since the overthrow of President Salvador Allende by the regime of General Augusto Pinochet, which ushered in 17 years of brutal military rule that saw some 40,000 people imprisoned, disappeared, tortured or killed. Mexico gave political refuge to 3,000 Chileans during the Pinochet regime.