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Salvador Allende's birth certificate. Allende was born on 26 June 1908 [25] in Santiago. [26] [27] He was the son of Salvador Allende Castro and Laura Gossens Uribe. Allende's family belonged to the Chilean upper middle class and had a long tradition of political involvement in progressive and liberal causes.
Soviet AKMS Allende's glasses, found in the Palacio de La Moneda after his death. On September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende, President of Chile, committed suicide during a coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army.
In office, Allende pursued a policy he called "La vía chilena al socialismo" ("The Chilean Way to Socialism"). This included nationalization of certain large-scale industries (notably copper), of the healthcare system, continuation of his predecessor Eduardo Frei Montalva's policies regarding the educational system, a program of free milk for children, and land redistribution.
Salvador Allende with the presidential band.. Allendism (Spanish: Allendismo) is an ideological current that bases its positions and lines on the government of Salvador Allende, [1] former president of Chile who, together with the Popular Unity (Unidad Popular, UP), ruled the country until the coup d'état of 1973, headed by Augusto Pinochet. [2]
Giovanni De Marchi, whose surname was also spelled as Demarchi, was born in Turin, the former capital of the Kingdom of Italy.In 1893, when he aged twenty-seven, De Marchi moved from Italy to Argentina, where he was involved with the Latin-American anarchist movement that arose around the newspaper Umanità Nova, stoked by figures such as Pietro Gori and Errico Malatesta.
The Presidential Republic (Spanish: República Presidencial) is the period in the history of Chile spanning from the approval of the 1925 Constitution on 18 September 1925, under the government of Arturo Alessandri Palma, to the overthrow of the Popular Unity government headed by the President Salvador Allende on 11 September 1973.
In 1971, Spanish art critic José María Moreno Galván proposed the creation of an art museum in support of the government of the Unidad Popular. [1] After the project was approved by Salvador Allende himself, the Comité Internacional de Solidaridad Artística con Chile (CISAC) (International Committee of Artistic Solidarity with Chile) was formed, bringing together national and ...
Salvador Allende is a 2004 documentary film about Chilean president Salvador Allende, from his election campaign to the coup d'état which ended his life. It was directed by Patricio Guzmán and screened out of competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival .