Thousands March to General Cemetery for 53rd Coup Anniversary Under 'No to Pardons' Banner; 29 Detained

On Sunday, September 6, 2026, thousands gathered at the Los Héroes metro station in Santiago for the traditional 'romería' (pilgrimage march) to the General Cemetery, organized by families of victims alongside the Communist Party and Frente Amplio, marking the 53rd anniversary of the 1973 coup under the banner 'No a los indultos.' The route passed La Moneda, San Antonio street and Recoleta avenue before ending near the cemetery's Memorial to the Disappeared. Carabineros reported 29 people detained, most with pending criminal cases; minor clashes broke out on Recoleta avenue near Cerro Blanco between demonstrators and Carabineros special forces involving stones, Molotov cocktails and fireworks, and masked individuals attempted to vandalize storefronts on San Antonio avenue. Organizers repeated the chant '¿Dónde están?' (Where are they?), citing more than 1,000 people still officially disappeared, and used the march to protest the pending Senate-approved sentence-reduction bill (Boletín 17.999-07) and press President Kast's government not to grant clemency to dictatorship-era convicts.