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Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973. As a democratic socialist committed to democracy, he has been described as the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (Latin American Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ⓘ; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism , is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits ( La casa de los espíritus , 1982) and City of the Beasts ( La ciudad de las ...
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.
May 31, 2024 · Isabel Allende is a Chilean American writer in the magic realist tradition who was one of the first successful women novelists from Latin America. Her books include The House of the Spirits, The Infinite Plan, Daughter of Fortune, In the Midst of Winter, and A Long Petal of the Sea.
Jun 22, 2024 · Salvador Allende 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.
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.
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.
Salvador Allende Gossens (June 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973) was a physician, senator, minister of health and the 28th President of Chile from November 3, 1970 until his death on September 11, 1973. He was a socialist and the first socialist president elected democratically (voted for by people) in South America. [2]
Sep 29, 2019 · Salvador Allende was Chile's first socialist president who embarked on an agenda of improving the living conditions of poor people and peasants. While popular with Chileans, Allende's social programs were undermined by both national conservative forces and the Nixon administration.
Sep 11, 2023 · Stephania Taladrid interviews the author Isabel Allende, whose latest novel is “The Wind Knows My Name,” on the fiftieth anniversary of Pinochet’s coup in Chile.
