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'''Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens''' (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and [[socialist]] politician,<ref>https://www.lexico.com/definition/allende,_salvador</ref> who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the first [[Marxism|Marxist]] to be elected president in a [[liberal democracy]] in [[Latin America]].<ref name="Mabry">Don Mabry, [http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=671 ''Chile: Allende's Rise and Fall''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061030015859/http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=671|date=30 October 2006}}</ref>
{{Infobox revolutionary|name=Salvador Allende|birthname=Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens |birth_date=26 June 1908|birth_place=Santaigo, [[Chile]]|death_date=11 September 1973 (age 65)|death_place=Santiago, Chile|political_orientation=[[Marxism]]|political_party=Unidad Popular (Popular Unity)<br>Partido Socialista de Chile (Socialist Party of Chile)|image=SalvadorAllende.jpg}}
 
'''Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens''' (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a [[Chile]]an physician and [[socialist]] politician,<ref>https://www.lexico.com/definition/allende,_salvador</ref> who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the first [[Marxism|Marxist]] to be elected president in a [[liberal democracy]] in [[Latin America]].<ref name="Mabry">Don Mabry, [http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=671 ''Chile: Allende's Rise and Fall''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061030015859/http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=671|date=30 October 2006}}</ref>


As president, Allende sought to nationalize major industries, expand education and improve the living standards of the working class. He clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled [[Congress of Chile|Congress]] and with the judiciary. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a ''[[1973 Chilean coup d'état|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 [[Death of Salvador Allende|committed suicide]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/20/salvador-allende-committed-suicide-autopsy</ref>
As president, Allende sought to nationalize major industries, expand education and improve the living standards of the working class. He clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled [[Congress of Chile|Congress]] and with the judiciary. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a ''[[1973 Chilean coup d'état|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 [[Death of Salvador Allende|committed suicide]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/20/salvador-allende-committed-suicide-autopsy</ref>

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Salvador Allende
Born26 June 1908
Santaigo, Chile
Died11 September 1973 (age 65)
Santiago, Chile
Political orientationMarxism
Political partyUnidad Popular (Popular Unity)
Partido Socialista de Chile (Socialist Party of Chile)


Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician,[1] who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America.[2]

As president, Allende sought to nationalize major industries, expand education and improve the living standards of the working class. He clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled Congress and with the judiciary. 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.[3]

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