September 11: It Happened Here
...ventured onto geopolitical terrain and into the limits of sovereignty. Salvador Allende and the nightmare of Kissinger Allende’s presidency emerged at a turning point for...
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Part I: The Chicago Boys — How They Became Influential
...Allende from being inaugurated.” Failing that effort, another declassified document reveals how, following Allende’s inauguration, the US orchestrated economic warfare to push international banks to...
Longread: The “No” Plebiscite That Finished Pinochet
...junta as a regression to the difficult life they faced under Allende’s rule. When the Allende government fell to the junta in September 1973, the...
The Curse of the Piocha de O’Higgins
by Diego Rivera
...read: https://chiletoday.cl/history-repeats-itself-in-chile/ Allende and the 1973 Coup Salvador Allende was born in 1908 in Valparaíso. While studying medicine at university, Allende developed an interest in...
Eduardo Frei Montalva: Chile´s first progressive president
...him to keep Allende out. Frei’s campaign and party also received help and funding from the CIA, because Washington worried of the example Allende could...
PART II: From Dictatorship to Democracy – What did the ´88 referendum bring Chile?
...to many factors. Some saw the end of the junta as a regression to the difficult life they faced under Allende’s rule. When the Allende...
Old audio from Letelier sheds light on days before the coup
by Diego Rivera
...a plebiscite as to whether Allende’s should complete his presidential term. The hour-long tape was made in 1974 by Joan Garcés, a former advisor to...
Chile continues to press for U.S. documents regarding the coup
...a possible armed confrontation between the armed forces and Allende’s followers. According to the report, Allende was increasingly worried about the possibilities of a coup....
Carlos Altamirano: The Last Chilean Revolutionary
...these years, he became together with Salvador Allende one of the most influential figures of the Chilean left in the 20th century. As one of...
Nine ex-soldiers convicted for murder of Chilean folk singer
...Salvador Allende’s government in 1973. Jara was a prominent supporter of Allende. Judge Miguel Vásquez of Santiago’s Court of Justice sentenced nine ex-military officers for...