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    Salvador Allende

    28th president of Chile

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  1. Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973. As a democratic socialist committed to democracy, he has been described as the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America.

  2. Jun 22, 2024 · Salvador Allende (born June 26, 1908, Valparaíso, Chile—died September 11, 1973, Santiago) was Chiles first socialist president. Allende, born into an upper-middle-class family, received his medical degree in 1932 from the University of Chile, where he was a Marxist activist.

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  3. Sep 10, 2023 · President Salvador Allende killed himself and Gen. Augusto Pinochet began a 17-year dictatorship. Fifty years ago in Chile, the United States worked to end the presidency of an elected Marxist...

  4. A biography of Salvador Allende, the socialist president of Chile who was overthrown by a military coup in 1973. Learn about his early years, political career, ideology, and legacy in this comprehensive article.

  5. Apr 2, 2014 · Salvador Allende was a politician who co-founded Chile's Socialist Party and ran for the Chilean presidency several times before winning the 1970 election. His regime was supported by...

  6. Death of Salvador Allende. Soviet AKMS. Allende's glasses, found in the Palacio de La Moneda after his death. On September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende, President of Chile, died by suicide from gunshot wounds during a coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. After decades of suspicions that Allende ...

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  8. Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973, and head of the Popular Unity government; he was a Socialist and Marxist elected to the national presidency of a liberal democracy in Latin America.

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