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 ...

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.

Chilean President Salvador Allende, flanked by military officers [Photo by Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile / CC BY 3.0]. As the mouthpiece of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA ...

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 second took place in Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1973, when socialist President Salvador Allende died in a military coup that overthrew his democratically elected government.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Salvador Allende’s election, in 1970, to a six-year term as President of Chile—though he got to serve only about half of it—was one of those rare moments which give the world reason to ...

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.

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 ...