Members of the Chilean protest group "Families of the Detained and Disappeared" march next to the presidential palace while carrying a banner reading: "Truth" in Santiago, September 11, 2000. Today marks the 27th anniversary of the coup d'etat [led by General Augusto Pinochet] in 1973 overthrowing Socialist President Salvador Allende. More than 3,000 people died or disappeared because of political violence during the 1973-1990 military rule.