In Chile, the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in which Salvador Allende was overthrown and replaced by dictator Augusto Pinochet was commemorated.

In this context, president Gabriel Boric led a ceremony in Santiago de Chile in which he called for "never again violence to replace democratic debate".

For him, the anniversary is an opportunity to "strengthen coexistence".

"Today we say before Chile and the world: democracy today and always", said Mr Boric, the most leftist president since Allende, who governed between 1970 and 1973.

In his speech, Boric assured that "democracy is a continuous construction" and is "the only way to advance towards a more just and humane society".

In this context, the daughter of the ousted president, Senator Isabel Allende, said that "memory is democracy and future".

She also called for "achieving justice and ensuring the non-repetition of the events of September 11, 1973".

The coup inaugurated a dictatorship that would last 17 years and left more than 40,000 victims, among them more than 3,200 executed, of whom 1,000 are still missing.

The commemoration in Santiago was attended by Argentine Estela de Carlotto, president of the human rights organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.

According to her, "those who gave their lives for their homeland, whose lives were taken from them, are accompanying us in this long struggle that the countries of Latin America have had".