Claim 149

Journalists who had supported the constitutional government could not work in the newly military-controlled press once their names appeared on blacklists.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: Journalists who had supported the constitutional government could not work in the newly military-controlled press once their names appeared on blacklists.
Field: status
Value: Journalists blacklisted
About: incident 1973-chile-coup-press-shutdown
Source: 'My September 11': On the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile, journalists remember living through the start of the dictatorship
Publisher: LatAm Journalism Review, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, University of Texas at Austin
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2023-09-11

Quotation from the source

We couldn't work in the military-controlled press for two reasons: or rejection of the dictatorship and our names being on 'blacklists'