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When the Leaning Tower Leaned Left

By: David Broder

In the 1970s, the Italian Communist Party was again on the rise in Tuscany. Then it all toppled over.

Illustration by Gabe Schneider

In September 11, 1975, exiled Chilean folk band Inti-Illimani set up a stage amid the fourteenth-century arches of Florence’s Piazza della Signoria and called for solidarity. It was two years to the day since Augusto Pinochet’s military coup had bloodily overthrown Chile’s socialist government, launching a massacre that terrified activists around the world. Forced out […]

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In September 11, 1975, exiled Chilean folk band Inti-Illimani set up a stage amid the fourteenth-century arches of Florence’s Piazza della Signoria and called for solidarity. It was two years to the day since Augusto Pinochet’s military coup had bloodily overthrown Chile’s socialist government, launching a massacre that terrified activists around the world. Forced out […]

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In September 11, 1975, exiled Chilean folk band Inti-Illimani set up a stage amid the fourteenth-century arches of Florence’s Piazza della Signoria and called for solidarity. It was two years to the day since Augusto Pinochet’s military coup had bloodily overthrown Chile’s socialist government, launching a massacre that terrified activists around the world. Forced out […]

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In September 11, 1975, exiled Chilean folk band Inti-Illimani set up a stage amid the fourteenth-century arches of Florence’s Piazza della Signoria and called for solidarity. It was two years to the day since Augusto Pinochet’s military coup had bloodily overthrown Chile’s socialist government, launching a massacre that terrified activists around the world. Forced out […]