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People light candles at the National Stadium during a vigil marking the anniversary of the 1973 military coup that ousted the late President Salvador Allende, in Santiago
CHILEAN journalists picketed the offices of right-wing national daily El Mecurio on Thursday after it published an insert praising the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
Members of the Press Association union were joined by Communist Party activists outside the newspaper’s Bogota offices as the Association of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees (AFDD) president Lorena Pizarro announced legal actions against El Mecurio.
“That newspaper is condoning terrorism, while on the other side of that publication we have survivors, we have relatives who are directly affected by this new infamy,” he said.
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