Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
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 ...
Former President Alessandri, in fact, had been elected in 1958 with 31.6% of the popular vote, defeating Allende. However, in this case, there was an active campaign against Allende's confirmation by Congress, including an intensified propaganda effort by the CIA to raise concerns about Chile's future.
Fifty years ago, Chile began the darkest period in its modern history. On Sept. 11, 1973, Gen. Augusto Pinochet led a military coup that included the bombing of La Moneda, the presidential palace ...
President of the First Government Junta. Died in office. — Juan Martínez de Rozas (1759–1813) 27 February 1811 2 April 1811 Interim President of the First Government Junta. — Fernando Márquez de la Plata (1740–1818) 2 April 1811 4 July 1811 President of the First Government Junta. — Juan Antonio Ovalle (1750–1819) 4 July 1811 20 ...
An authoritarian military dictatorship ruled Chile for seventeen years, between 11 September 1973 and 11 March 1990. The dictatorship was established after the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'état backed by the United States on 11 September 1973.
The Presidential Republic (Spanish: República Presidencial) is the period in the history of Chile spanning from the approval of the 1925 Constitution on 18 September 1925, under the government of Arturo Alessandri Palma, to the overthrow of the Popular Unity government headed by the President Salvador Allende on 11 September 1973.