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Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens[A] (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician [4][5] who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973. [6] As a socialist committed to democracy, [7][8] he has been described as the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin ...
On September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende, President of Chile, died by suicide from gunshot wounds during a coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. After decades of suspicions that Allende might have been assassinated by the Chilean Armed Forces, a Chilean court authorized the exhumation and autopsy ...
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 Marxist elected to the national presidency of a liberal democracy in Latin America. [1][2] In August 1973 the Chilean Senate declared the Allende administration to be "unlawful," Allende's presidency ...
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état (Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government. [10][11] Allende, who has been described as the first Marxist to be democratically elected president in a Latin American liberal democracy ...
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 ...
Public image of Salvador Allende. Salvador Allende was involved in Chilean politics for over forty years. He has been lauded as a hero, but also criticized from the right and the left. Despite efforts by the Christian-Democratic-led governments of the post-Pinochet era to diminish his reputation, Salvador Allende remains an important historical ...
Salvador Allende bibliography. Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections. This is a Salvador Allende bibliography, including writings, speeches, letters and others.
Operation Condor (Portuguese: Operação Condor; Spanish: Operación Cóndor) was a campaign of political repression involving intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations of left-wing sympathizers, [10] in South America which formally existed from 1975 to 1983. [11][12][13][14][15] Condor was formally created in November 1975, when ...