Complex sentence: Shortly after the September 11,1973 Chilean coup he was arrested, tortured and ultimately shot to death by machine gun fire--his body was later thrown out into the street of a shanty town in Santiago.
Split into simpler sentences: Shortly after the September 11,1973 Chilean coup he was arrested, tortured and ultimately shot to death by machine gun fire. His body was later thrown out into the street of a shanty town in Santiago.