Book burnings in Chile

Book burnings in Chile were done by the military junta led by dictator General Augusto Pinochet following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.

"[2] Following the coup, the military began raids to find potential opponents of the new regime, who were then held and some of them executed at the Estadio Nacional and other places.

[2] In some instances, even books on Cubism were burned because soldiers thought it had to do with the Cuban Revolution.

[4][5] The book burning attracted international protests: the American Library Association condemned them, arguing that it is "a despicable form of suppression" which "violates the fundamental rights of the people of Chile.

Together with them, copies of a book of essays by Venezuelan ex-guerrilla and presidential candidate Teodoro Petkoff were also burned.