Salvador Allende died at the Presidential Palace that day, a death that foretold the death of democracy and of so many thousands of his followers.

U.S. officials were especially concerned about Salvador Allende, a self-proclaimed Marxist and a member of Chile's Socialist Party who ran for president multiple times and was a leading contender ...

Patricio Guzmán’s plaintive and surprisingly intimate documentary, “Salvador Allende,” is no conventional portrait of the Chilean president, whose death in 1973 prefaced 18 years of ...

The remains of Salvador Allende were recently exhumed to discover whether the former president committed suicide — or was assassinated — in a 1973 coup. Some Chileans don't see the point of ...

PATRICIO Guzman’s 2004 documen tary “Salvador Allende” is receiving it’s first run in New York. Allende was, for folks who don’t go back that far, the democratically e… ...

It is oddly appropriate that Henry Kissinger should have died in the year that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup in Chile — the cataclysmic overthrow of its ...

That day, Salvador Allende would die by shooting himself in the head, but at 9:45 am on September 11, 1973, the president of Chile, 65, still looked like a fighter.

Then-senator Salvador Allende as he leaves Government House on Aug. 27, 1970, in Santiago, Chile. In 1973, a CIA-backed coup removed him from the presidency and left him dead.

Salvador Allende in 1970. The death of Mr. Allende, a former Chilean president, is the central mystery of Ariel Dorfman’s new novel, “The Suicide Museum.” ...

The dead were then silent for years, which left me unprepared when Salvador Allende came to me offering advice for Barack Obama. It seemed, at first glance, a strange connection.