Jacobin
Socialist leader Salvador Allende became Chile’s president on this day in 1970. Allende’s election inaugurated a unique experiment in radical democracy that was cut short by Augusto Pinochet’s brutal US-backed coup.
Jacobin
Socialist leader Salvador Allende became Chile’s president on this day in 1970. Allende’s election inaugurated a unique experiment in radical democracy that was cut short by Augusto Pinochet’s brutal US-backed coup.