Small groups of demonstrators clashed sporadically with police forces throughout the evening Thursday (September 11) in Santiago.<br/> <br />The demonstrations took place on the 41st anniversary of Chile's brutal military coup during which then-President Salvador Allende was found dead.<br/> <br />The tight-knit small groups threw rocks and burned tires as police answered by firing tear gas.<br/> <br />Allende, hailed as the West's first democratically-elected Marxist President, was overthrown in 1973 after Chilean Air Force jets began bombing La Moneda Palace in a U.S.-supported military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, ushering in a dark period of right-wing dictatorships across the region.
