US congressmen presented a resolution this Thursday that apologizes for "the contribution" of the United States in Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état in Chile 50 years ago and urges authorities to declassify more documents about what happened, one day before the visit planned by the Chilean leader, Gabriel Boric, to Washington. In the statement, the lawmakers express "deep regret for the United States' contribution to the destabilization of Chile's political institutions and the constitutional process." Also for having contributed "to the consolidation of the repressive military dictatorship of General Pinochet," it is established in the text, on the eve of Boric arriving in Washington after having attended the UN General Assembly in New York. The Chilean Armed Forces, led by Pinochet and with the support of the United States in a context of the Cold War against Soviet influence, overthrew Salvador Allende (1970-1973) when he was preparing to call a plebiscite in an attempt to get out of the acute political and economic crisis that the country was experiencing, after 1000 days in power. At Chile's request, the US State Department in recent weeks declassified fragments of two documents from 1973 that show that former President Richard Nixon was aware of military plans to overthrow Allende. The legislators estimate, in the statement promoted by independent congressman Bernie Sanders and Democrats Tim Kaine, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Joaquín Castro and Greg Casar, that President Joe Biden must take another step. "Full accountability" requires that "the remaining United States files related to the events before, during and after the military coup be published and declassified," they stated in the text, replicated by the AFP news agency. According to declassified files, Nixon ordered the intelligence agency (CIA) to "make the economy scream" and covertly block Allende's inauguration. Under the supervision of National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the CIA strove to foster a "coup climate" and "create the best possible conditions" to bring the military to power.