Salvador Allende
1908 – 1973 Chilean president of Chile
Democratically elected Marxist president of Chile, overthrown and killed in the 1973 military coup.
- Affiliations
- Socialist Party of Chile, Popular Unity
Salvador Allende was a physician and socialist politician who in 1970 became the first Marxist elected president of Chile in a free vote, leading the Popular Unity coalition. His government nationalised copper and pursued redistribution amid deep polarisation, economic crisis, and documented covert efforts by the United States to undermine him. On 11 September 1973 the military under Augusto Pinochet seized power; Allende died in the presidential palace, an act generally established as suicide as troops closed in. His overthrow ushered in a long and brutal dictatorship.
Connections
- rival of Augusto Pinochet — Led the coup that overthrew and replaced him.
- rival of Augusto Pinochet — Pinochet led the coup that overthrew him.
- rival of Henry Kissinger — Directed policy to undermine his government.
- rival of Richard Helms — Directed CIA efforts to undermine his government.
- rival of Richard Nixon — Ordered covert operations to undermine his government.
In the timeline
- 1964 CIA spends millions to defeat Allende in 1964 Chile vote mentioned
- 1970 Rene Schneider assassinated in Chile mentioned
- 1970 Salvador Allende wins the Chilean presidency central figure
- 1970 Nixon orders covert action against Allende the targeted president
- 1970 ITT plots against Allende in Chile mentioned
- 1971 Allende nationalizes Chilean copper mentioned
- 1973 The Chilean coup overthrows Allende mentioned
- 1973 Chile's coup and the arrival of the Chicago Boys mentioned
- 1973 Pinochet Coup in Chile mentioned
- 1973 The coup against Allende brings Pinochet to power the overthrown president
- 1973 Chile's Salvador Allende is overthrown in a military coup the overthrown president
- 1973 The overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile central figure
- 2000 The Chile Declassification Project releases coup files mentioned