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Salvador Allende's birth certificate. Allende was born on 26 June 1908 in Santiago. 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.
Jun 22, 2024 · Salvador Allende (born June 26, 1908, Valparaíso, Chile—died September 11, 1973, Santiago) was Chile’s 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.
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 ...
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.
Summary. Salvador Allende Gossens (1908–1973), democratically elected President of Chile in 1970, pledged to move Chile to socialism within a constitutional framework. A medical doctor by training, and a long-time member of the Socialist Party, Allende won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in 1937 and the Senate in 1945.
Sep 10, 2023 · President Salvador Allende killed himself and Gen. Augusto Pinochet began a 17-year dictatorship. AP. Fifty years ago in Chile, the United States worked to end the presidency of an elected...
Salvador Allende, (born June 26, 1908, Valparaiso, Chile—died Sept. 11, 1973, Santiago), Socialist president of Chile (1970–73). Of upper-middle-class background, Allende took a degree in medicine and in 1933 helped found Chile’s Socialist Party.
