Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (Spanish pronunciation: [salβaˈðoɾ aˈʎende ˈɣosens]) (June 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973) was a physician and the first democratically elected Marxist socialist to become president of a state in the Americas.
Allende's involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years. As a member of the Socialist Party, he was a senator, deputy and cabinet minister. He unsuccessfully ran for the presi...
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Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (Spanish pronunciation: [salβaˈðoɾ aˈʎende ˈɣosens]) (June 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973) was a physician and the first democratically elected Marxist socialist to become president of a state in the Americas.
Allende's involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years. As a member of the Socialist Party, he was a senator, deputy and cabinet minister. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in the 1952, 1958, and 1964 elections, but was appointed in 1970.
Allende served as the President of Chile from November 4, 1970 until the U.S.-backed September 11, 1973 coup d'état that ended his democratically elected Popular Unity government. During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech where he vowed to stay in the presidential palace. The cause of death was suicide.
Allende was born on June 26, 1908 in Valparaíso. He was the son of Salvador Allende Castro and Laura Gossens Uribe....
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