Leftist protesters stormed the General Cemetery in Santiago, where they set fire to the tomb of a key official from the fascist Pinochet dictatorship and destroyed the police mausoleum, ahead of the 50th anniversary of the fascist coup against the democratically elected self-proclaimed Marxist Salvador Allende.
Senator Jaime Guzman, one of Pinochet's most important allies and known as the "creator" of the fascist Pinochet constitution of 1980, is buried in the tomb. Guzman was considered a hardliner in terms of launching a counterinsurgency against revolutionary guerrillas during the Pinochet era, making him the target of an assassination attempt in 1991, when he was shot dead by the communist Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front.
Protesters also stormed the mausoleum of Chile's notorious anti-riot police Carabineros, who killed more than 30 protesters and arrested nearly 30,000 during the 2019 social unrest in Chile. The gravestones of dead Carabineros were smashed, and the walls were sprayed with anti-police slogans.
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