Salvador Allende was the world's first democratically-elected Marxist leader of any nation.
his term was to be cut short less than three years later by General Augusto Pinochet. Both Allende and Pinochet were dogmatic men, each believing his cause was the right one and neither left room for compromise - when two men of this disposition clash, tragedy is the only outcome.
At 4am on 11 September, a date that is now synonymous with strikes against democracy, military units stationed throughout Chile reported for action to the leaders of the coup, led by Augusto Pinochet.
The most effective operation was carried the military has cut out all the phone lines and round everyone in a Island. The whole operation took less than 85 minutes to execute.
President Allende was alerted to the fact that the navy were trying to capture the port of Valparaíso and on hearing the news, he immediately removed himself to La Moneda, he had the chance to run away in a helicopter but he wasn’t afraid and stay to fight.
group of people were seen waving the white flag of surrender at a side door of La Moneda.
At the same time Allende suicide with a gun in his room.
Nixon was elected president on 1968. The most immediate task facing President Nixon was the Vietnam War. He initially escalated the conflict, overseeing secret bombing campaigns, but soon withdrew American troops and successfully negotiated a ceasefire with North Vietnam, effectively ending American involvement in the war.
Domestically, he implemented new economic policies which called for wage and price control and the abolition of the gold standard. He was reelected by a landslide in 1972
He suffered a debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994, and died four days later at the age of 81.
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