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The issue was designed by the painter A. Kovrizhkin and bore the title "Salvador Allende, President of the Republic of Chile, Laureate of the Lenin Peace Prize, 1908 – 11.IX.1973". [177] A stamp was released by Magyar Posta in Hungary in 1974 shortly after the 11 September, 1973 coup in Chile that ended the socialist government of Salvador ...
Chileans marching in support of Allende. In the 1970 election, Allende ran with the Unidad Popular (UP or Popular Unity) coalition. Succeeding the FRAP left-wing coalition, Unidad Popular comprised most of the Chilean Left: the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Radical Party, the Party of the Radical Left (until 1972), the Social Democratic Party, MAPU (Movimiento de Acción Popular ...
Within Allendism, there are mainly two theoretical-historical currents: one led by Salvador Allende himself and followed by the Communist and Radical Party, as well as the MAPU Obrero Campesino and the Independent Popular Action; while the other current, of a more radical nature, led by Carlos Altamirano, was followed by the Socialist Party, the MAPU, and the Christian Left.
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]
The Socialist Party of Chile (Spanish: Partido Socialista de Chile, or PS) is a centre-left political party founded in 1933. Its historic leader was President of Chile Salvador Allende, who was deposed in a coup d'état by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973.
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 figure in Chile. [1]
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
After the democratic election of President Salvador Allende in 1970, an economic war ordered by President Richard Nixon, [19] among other things, caused the 1973 Chilean coup d'état with the involvement of the CIA [20] due to Allende's democratic socialist leanings.