On September 11th, 1973, in Chile, the military forces violently overthrew the democratic socialist government; killed the president, Salvador Allende; bombed the presidential palace La Moneda; and began a dictatorship that is felt to this day. The highest ranking generals of the army, carabineros (the police), the navy and the air force, established a military junta and created a new constitution for Chile, which has been reformed several times, but still functions as the national constitution, to this day
We have tried changing this through several referendums, even going so far as approving a constitutional reform after the chilean riots of 2019. The vote for the reform was successful, but the new document was rejected through popular vote, so the changes were not implemented, as they were deemed as "too progressive and left-leaning". People, even chileans, still claim that we returned to democracy in 1990 when Augusto Pinochet was voted out of office, after which he became senator of the republic, until he died peacefully as a decorated hero in a massive funeral
In Chile, the laws and values of this country are still directly tied to the dictatorship, and those of us whose families were direct victims of persecutions, exile, kidnapping, detentions, torture, murders and disappearances committed by the secret police (DINA and CNI), the army and carabineros (police forces), we still live in constant fear of this happening again. There is no justice in Chile, or any other country of Latinoamérica that suffered through United States-backed dictatorships. We all still deal with the aftermath of violent military and political interventions