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Salvador Allende's birth certificate. Allende was born on 26 June 1908 [25] in Santiago. [26] [27] He was the son of Salvador Allende Castro and Laura Gossens Uribe. Allende's family belonged to the Chilean upper middle class and had a long tradition of political involvement in progressive and liberal causes.
Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973, and head of the Popular Unity government; he was a Socialist and the first Marxist elected to the national presidency of a liberal democracy in Latin America.
Soviet AKMS Allende's glasses, found in the Palacio de La Moneda after his death. On September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende, President of Chile, committed suicide during a coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army.
No. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Term of office Notes — Mariano Osorio (1777–1819) 3 October 1814 26 December 1815 Royal Governor of Chile — Casimiro Marcó del Pont
Salvador Allende. Salvador Allende ran again in the 1970 presidential election, winning a narrow victory plurality vote (near 37%). U.S. president Richard Nixon feared that Chile could become "another Cuba" and cut off most foreign aid to Chile. The U.S. government believed that Allende would become closer to socialist countries such as Cuba ...
Allende contested the 1970 Chilean presidential election with Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez of the National Party and Radomiro Tomic of the Christian Democratic Party. Allende received 36.6% of the vote, while Alessandri was a very close second with 35.3%, and Tomic third with 28.1%, [36] in what was a close three-way election. [37]
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday will sign a memorandum aimed at fighting inflation after he takes office that calls for an "all of government" response to bring down costs for Americans, an ...
José Gregorio Allende Garcés, personal bodyguard of Bernardo O'Higgins; married to Salomé Padín Ruiz [1]. Ramón Allende Padín (1845–1884), physician and politician, chief of the Chilean Army Medical Corps during the War of the Pacific (1879–1884), author of various important scientific publications, freemason; married to Eugenia Castro del Fierro (1850–1930)