events
Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
Related Wikipedia articles
Rodrigo Rojas de Negri
Chilean photographer; burned alive during anti-Pinochet demonstrations in 1986
Rodrigo Andrés Rojas de Negri, known as Rodrigo Rojas, was a young photographer who was burned alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Carmen Gloria Quintana
Chilean democracy activist (born 1967)
Carmen Gloria Quintana Arancibia is a Chilean woman who suffered severe burns in an incident where she and other young people were detained by an army patrol during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. She survived, and thereafter became a symbol…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Military dictatorship of Chile
Period of Chilean history under the rule of General Augusto Pinochet
An authoritarian military dictatorship ruled Chile for almost seventeen years, between 11 September 1973 and 11 March 1990. The dictatorship was established after the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'état backed by the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Augusto Pinochet
Dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean military officer and politician who was the dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990. From 1973 to 1981, he was the leader of the military junta, which in 1974 declared him President of the Republic and thus the dictator of Chile; in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Chile
Country in South America
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Chile had a population of 17.5…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)