page_title: List of book-burning incidents
section_title: Leftist books in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship
hierarchical_section_title: List of book-burning incidents / Cold War era and 1990s / Leftist books in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship
caption_attribution_description: Español: Chile, septiembre 1973. Quema de libros izquierdistas durante los primeros días del régimen militar chileno. English: Burning left-wing books during the early days of the Chilean military regime.
context_page_description: Notable book burnings have taken place throughout history.
context_section_description: After the victory of Augusto Pinochet's forces in the Chilean coup of 1973, bookburnings of Marxist and other works ensued. Journalist Carlos Rama reported in February 1974 that up to that point, destroyed works included: the handwritten Chilean Declaration of Independence by Bernardo O'Higgins, thousands of books of Editora Nacional Quimantú including the Complete Works of Che Guevara, thousands of books in the party headquarters of the Chilean Socialist Party and MAPU, personal copies of works by Marx, Lenin, and anti-fascist thinkers, and thousands of copies of newspapers and magazines favorable to Salvador Allende including Chile Today. In some instances, even books on Cubism were burned because ignorant soldiers thought it had to do with the Cuban Revolution.
caption: Burning left-wing books during the early days of the Chilean military dictatorship, 1974
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