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| 1968 |
| | Catholic bishops in Latin America, plagued by oppressive regimes, develop the concept of liberation theology | |
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| 1970 |
| | Salvador Allende, heading a Socialist and Marxist coalition, is elected president in Chile | |
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| 1971 |
| | The 19-year-old Jean Claude Duvalier, succeeding his father as president of Haiti, becomes known as Baby Doc | |
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| 1971 |
| | The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for Literature | |
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| 1973 |
| | A military coup plunges democratic Uruguay into eleven years of repressive terror | |
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| 1973 |
| | President Salvador Allende appoints Augusto Pinochet commander-in-chief of the Chilean army and brings him into the cabinet | |
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| 1973 |
| | The 77-year-old Juan Perón, after returning to Argentina, is once again elected president | |
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| 1973 |
| | Chilean president Salvador Allende dies in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet | |
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| 1974 |
| | Augusto Pinochet takes sole power in Chile, at the head of a junta which governs with extreme brutality | |
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| 1974 |
| | Isabel Perón becomes president of Argentina on the death of her husband Juan Perón | |
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