Salvador Allende, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Salvador Allende

Chilean physician and politician

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1908

Place of Birth: Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Date of Death: 11-Sep-1973

Profession: physician, politician, surgeon

Nationality: Chile

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Salvador Allende

  • Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (US: , UK: , American Spanish: [salßa'ðo? ?i'?e?mo a'?ende '?osens]; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean democratic socialist politician and physician, President of Chile from 1970 until 1973, and head of the Popular Unity political coalition government; he was the first ever Marxist to be elected president in a country with liberal democracy.Allende's involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years, having covered the posts of senator, deputy and cabinet minister.
  • As a life-long committed member of the Socialist Party of Chile, whose foundation he had actively contributed to, he unsuccessfully ran for the national presidency in the 1952, 1958, and 1964 elections.
  • In 1970, he won the presidency in a close three-way race.
  • He was elected in a run-off by Congress as no candidate had gained a majority. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d'état supported by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  • As troops surrounded La Moneda Palace, he gave his last speech vowing not to resign.
  • Later that day, Allende committed suicide with an AK-47 rifle gifted to him by Fidel Castro, according to an investigation conducted by a Chilean court with the assistance of international experts in 2011.Following Allende's death, General Augusto Pinochet refused to return authority to a civilian government, and Chile was later ruled by a military junta that was in power up until 1990, ending more than four decades of uninterrupted democratic governance.
  • The military junta that took over dissolved the Congress of Chile, suspended the Constitution, and began a persecution of alleged dissidents, in which at least 3,095 civilians disappeared or were killed.

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