FILE PHOTO: Protesters are seen during clashes at a rally on Women's Day celebrations in Valparaiso, Chile, March 8, 2020. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera celebrated 30 years since Chile's return to democracy on Wednesday, even as scattered incidents of violence broke out across the capital alongside renewed calls for a mass protest against social injustice and inequality.
Dictator Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende in September 1973. During Pinochet's reign, which ended in 1990, some 3,000 people died or disappeared in Chile. Many more were tortured, according to government truth commission findings.
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