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Popular Unity (Spanish: Unidad Popular, UP) was a left-wing political alliance in Chile that stood behind the successful candidacy of Salvador Allende for the 1970 Chilean presidential election.
Popular Unity. Chile 1970-1973. Synopsis. Nearly 11 years after the Cuban Revolution, the socialist Salvador Allende was elected through a democratic process as president of the Republic of Chile to head a left-wing coalition called Popular Unity.
Jun 1, 2021 · Abstract. In this article, the co-editors introduce key themes and contributions of this special issue of Radical Americas, particularly as they pertain to the 50th anniversary of Chile’s Popular Unity revolution (1970–3) and the more recent estallido social (social uprising), which began in Santiago de Chile in October 2019.
Jun 1, 2021 · Towards a global history of the Unidad Popular. Published. research-article. Author (s): Tanya Harmer. Publication date (Electronic): 1 June 2021. Journal: Radical Americas. Publisher: UCL Press. Keywords: Chile, Unidad Popular, revolution, counter-revolution, Cold War, transnational networks, exile, Third-Worldism. Download. Review. Bookmark.
May 2, 2023 · 10 days after the 1973 coup against the Popular Unity (UP) government of President Salvador Allende, the military opened the Río Chico concentration camp on Dawson Island, located in the Strait of Magellan, near the southern tip of Chile. The island had served as an extermination camp by a Catholic order between 1891 and 1911 to confine the ...
Jun 1, 2021 · Abstract. This article examines the questioning indicated by some historians at the beginning of the twenty-first century regarding that they would be in debt to the study of the Allende government and the Popular Unity (UP) in Chile (1970–3). Although historians have investigated the diverse issues and problems of that period in varying ...
By Jeanne DiNovis. International Institute, December 2, 2013 — As soon as Salvador Allende was elected president in 1970, the “pent-up injustice in Chile unleashed a revolution from below” supported by the Unidad Popular (Popular Unity) coalition, said Marc Cooper at a panel discussion at UCLA on November 8, 2013.
