Salvador Allende

the 4th of September, 1970, history was made in Chile with Salvador Allende, the leader of the Unidad Popular, becoming the first democratically elected Marxist leader in the history of Latin America when he obtained a narrow vote of 36.6% to 35.3% over a former Chilean President Jorge Alessandri. Also a candidate in this Presidential election was Radomiro Tomic of the Christian Democratic Party who received 28.1% of the votes. According to the Chilean Constitution of the time, if no candidate running for the presidential role obtained a majority of the popular vote, Congress would choose one of the two candidate’s with the highest number of votes as the new Chilean president. With this being said, on the 3rd of November, 1970, Salvador…

Around 1950’s, factors like poverty and lack of basic needs posed some serious challenges to the development of Cuba (Chasteen, 269-270). A Cuban left-wing revolutionary, Fidel Castro believed that the control of resources by the upper class people was a major reason for Cuba’s struggles (Castro, 309). Castro also believed that the U.S. intervention in Cuban matters would hugely benefit the capitalists and would further increase the social inequality. Very similar to this, was the case of Chile,…

The status of Latin American Governments has ranged from opposite ideological ends of the spectrum. After Salvador Allende, who was democratically elected by the Chilean people, was over thrown by Agusto Pinochet due to poor economic reform and a spike in inflation, the state of Chile efficiently turned around the economy because of neo-liberal economic policy enforced by not a democratic government but an authoritarian state. Pinochet’s powers associated with being a dictator allowed him to…

of state, said a few months prior to self-proclaimed Marxist, Salvador Allende's democratic election as President of Chile. This quote encapsulates American political ideology during the Cold War and sheds light on the nature of the Allende regime that was toppled just three years after its democratic victory. The statement from Henry Kissinger expresses the United States' sentiment towards Allende and the platform on which his campaign ran. Why was the United States so scared of a potentially…

Author Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer. Although originally born in Lima, Peru, she relocated to Chile at the age of three. She identifies herself as Chilean. “Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru, and moved to Chile when she was three years old; she comes from a major Chilean political family and identifies herself as a Chilean. Her childhood was spent with her maternal grandparents in Santiago, Chile, following the divorce of her parents.” (McCann) “Isabel Allende, daughter of…

Alexa Nanan Dr. Matt Samson Anthropology 253-0 Due Date: November 5, 2017 Challenging the Neoliberal State: Chile’s Attempt to Education Reform and Regaining a Personal Liberty Focus: The topic of this paper is to focus on education and specific education reform in Chile published over the last ten to fifteen years and how politics, including neoliberalism, influences education. Abstract In Chile, Salvador Allende was the first elected Marxist President of Chile from 1970-1973. However, he…

US Covert Operations in Chile 1963-1974 On September 11, 1973, a Chilean Air Force plane flew over the skies of La Moneda, presidential palace of Chile. Inside Salvador Allende , the first Marxist socialist chief of state ever elected in a democratic country via free vote three years earlier . Rather than surrender to a military coup, Allende commits suicide . Many reason exist as to why the Chilean military decided to overthrow a democratic government. Some attribute it to the United States…

In the midst of an upsurge of worker militancy, the 1970 presidential election was taking place. Running was Salvador Allende who represented the common people of Chile. Allende led the left-wing coalition Popular Unity (UP) and for many Chilean workers, the UP government embodied their aspirations for a better life. In Peter Winn’s book, Weavers of Revolution, he tells the story of the Chilean revolution through the eyes of the participants. Winn focuses on the workers at the Yarur textile…

The movie, Allende en Su Labertino (Allende and His Maze), was written by the Chilean film director and writer, Miguel Littin. Littin was born in the 1940s, was a supporter of Salvador Allende’s regime, and was exiled soon after the assassination of Allende during the rise in power of dictator Augusto Pinochet in Chile during his military coup of the country. Littin is also known for his other films, such as one relevant to this same historical subject is Dawson Isla 10 from 2009 which was a…

Augusto Pinochet was born November 25, 1915, in Valparaiso, Chile. He was a military officer who was appointed army commander in chief by president Allende. On September 11, 1973 Pinochet led the military coup overthrowing the Allende government with the help of the U.S. and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Salvador Allende was the first democratically elected Marxist leader in Latin America. By 1973, the Chilean economy was in chaos. Inflation, labor strikes and food shortages were…