The Last Picture of Chilean President Salvador Allende Alive.
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La Moneda Palace 9/11/1973 @ noon.
La Moneda Palace is being bombarded during the coup d’état at noon on September 11th 1973.
O’Higgins’ Pioche.
The World Press Photo of the Year 1973.
La Moneda Palace, Santiago de Chile, September 11th, 1973.
Photo: Leopoldo Víctor Vargas.
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Joop Swart and John G. Morris with the World Press Photo of the Year 1973, Amsterdam, 1974.
Tanquetazo
Forty three years ago, on Friday 29th, June 1973, there was a putsch against the government of Chilean President Salvador Allende. This failed putsch is known as Tanquetazo or Tancazo.
- Chilean President Salvador Allende is met by the Army Commander in Chief, General Carlos Prats, upon his arrival to La Moneda Palace, at around 11:41 am.
Photo captured at the entrance to the seat of the Chilean government, right after the Tanquetazo putsch had been crushed by the loyalist forces.
Friday 29th, June 1973, La Moneda, Santiago de Chile.
Photo: (Possibly) Luis Poirot.
Chilean Army General Carlos Prats González.
Tanquetazo.
Chilean President Salvador Allende stayed in his home, at Tomás Moro Street, until around 11:30 am, leaving in that hour heading to La Moneda Palace the day of the failed putsch, on june 29th, 1973.
Notice here that late Chilean President Salvador Allende is wearing O’Higgins Pioche a simbol of his character as Generalissimo of the Chilean Armed Forces. Also he is wearing a 6 button double breasted suit, white shirt and tie. An attire completely different from the one he wore the fateful day of the Coup in September 11th, 1973.
Photo: (Possibly) Luis Poirot.
#TodayInHistory: the #NYT announces de winner of the #WPPh 1973.
In a day like today, 42 years ago, was announced in #TheNewYorkTimes that an unidentified Chilean photographer won the grand prize of photojournalism; the World Press Photo of the Year 1973, awarded by the #WorldPressPhotoFoundation, in the Netherlands.
The author of that picture was presidential photographer and Chilean Air Force NCO Leopoldo Víctor Vargas (1933-2011).
Leopoldo V. Vargas past away five years ago- the afternoon of Saturday 26, 2011. This weekend, his family, with lots of love and respect celebrates his fifth anniversary. Here is our homage.
#TodayInHistory TIME Magazine publishes a pix of Leopoldo V. Vargas shot in 9/11/1973.
World Press Photo 1973 