Orlando Lagos, Chile, for The New York Times.Santiago, Chile, 11 September 1973.
Democratically elected President Salvador Allende moments away from death during military coup at Moneda presidential palace.
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This picture is controversial. Marvine Howe, then a Latin American correspondent of The New York Times, obtained it from a source who said the photographer had to remain anonymous for reasons of personal security. It has been alleged that it was taken at a previous coup attempt, one which failed.
In February 2007, the Chilean newspaper La Nación revealed that the photographer has been identified as Luis Orlando Lagos Vásquez, aka "Chico" Lagos, at the time La Moneda's official photographer, who had passed away in the previous month at the age of 94.
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