Pinochet used Hawker Hunter jets in his military coup against the democratically-elected president , Salvador Allende SANTIAGO LLANQUIN/APGlasgow Film Festival will close with the world premiere of a documentary about a group of Scots workers helped to thwart the brutal regime of General Pinochet. Directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra, the son of a Chilean exile who is now based in Scotland, Nae Pasaran — “They shall not pass” — charts the true story of how in 1974 workers at the Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride managed to ground half of Chile’s air force. They refused to carry out the vital repairs on engines for Hawker Hunter planes which had been used during the ruthless military coup in September of the year before. The boycott continued for four years and it was the longest single act of solidarity against the dictatorship, but the…

Source: The Times January 18, 2018 00:03 UTC