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 ...

Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman revisits the death of Salvador Allende. In Dorfman’s new novel, “The Suicide Museum,” the legacy of a slain president is entwined with climate change ...

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.” ...

Author Isabel Allende on "The Wind Knows My Name" 07:27. If anyone knows what it takes to capture readers' attention, ... Salvador Allende. "My country changed in 24 hours," she said.

Salvador Allende was born in 1908 in the central port town of Valparaiso - his father was a lawyer. Expelled from university for political activities, Allende later returned and graduated in medicine ...

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 ...

For 50 years, I have been mourning the death of President Salvador Allende of Chile, who was overthrown in a coup the morning of Sept. 11, 1973. For 50 years, I have mourned his death and the many ...

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.

Salvador Allende died in the palace that day. Isabel Allende would later flee from her native Chile to Venezuela. Her books include The House of the Spirits, Paula and Daughter of Fortune.

Politics; December 2, 2022; Salvador Allende Still Speaks to Us Today Salvador Allende Still Speaks to Us Today Chilean President Gabriel Boric and Spanish Prime Minster Pedro Sanchez both find ...

When Donald Trump raised the idea of toppling Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei yesterday, it wasn’t just the idea that was ...