Overview
- Thousands of people walked to Cementerio General in Santiago on Sunday to mark the 53rd anniversary of the 1973 coup and to demand information on victims of the Pinochet-era dictatorship.
- Marchers chanted “¿Dónde están?” to press for the roughly 1,000–1,500 people still listed as disappeared and placed flowers at memorials that list more than 3,000 killed during the dictatorship.
- Participants and human-rights groups said the administration of President José Antonio Kast has removed staff and cut funding from the Plan Nacional de Búsqueda de Detenidos Desaparecidos, which family organizations say hampers efforts to locate remains.
- Protesters also warned against possible indultos for police and military convicted of human-rights abuses, while the government says it will review pardon requests case by case.
- The romería was mostly peaceful but saw clashes between small groups and Carabineros, with police reporting 29 detentions, and the day reinforced families’ demand for truth and accountability.