Tributes paid to 'true working-class hero' from Lanarkshire who refused to help Pinochet's brutal military dictatorship
dailyrecord.co.ukA key member of a group of a workers in Lanarkshire who defied a ruthless South American military dictatorship has died, following a short illness.John Keenan, who was 83, worked at Rolls-Royce in East Kilbride.
In 1974 workers at the factory refused to repair and return Hawker Hunter jet engines belonging to the Chilean Air Force that had been sent there for maintenance.At the time Chile was in the grip of General Augusto Pinochet, following a military coup which overthrew the democratically elected government the previous year.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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Around 200,000 were also exiled.He remained in power for 17 years in a reign of fear and terror, which included gruesome acts of physical and sexual abuse.
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