The autopsy report has been released by British coroner David Prayer:
Salvador Allende killed himself by firing a shotgun into his chin while Pinochet's forces were storming Chile's Presidential mansion in a military coup.
That was the accepted story then; it has been confirmed.
Yet what was the purpose of the exhumation and re-autopsy? Historical Revisionists will stop at nothing to discredit the Pinochet regime which harassed and tortured a number of political prisoners. Past question, those actions of the state were reprehensible.
Yet the economic boon that followed Pinochet's investment in free market reforms simply cannot be denied, no matter how brutal his authoritarian regime. Let us not forget that he allowed a plebiscite to remove him from power after his fifteen-year rule, a political move which no Communist has ever permitted.
No matter what steps socialist sympathizers take to further discredit the Pinochet regime, the free market maneuvers which resurrected a moribund nation then and still thrive today would never have been put in place by the Communist puppet Salvador Allende.