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Political Parties Military Officers
1,220 wordsH 2 >Background: Salvador Allende Gossens was elected the first Marxist president of Chile in 1970. He governed Chile from 1970 until 1973, the year of his death. The Allende government was not very successful. It approved sharp increases in the minimum wage whilst attempting to prevent price increases in consumer goods, in an effort to end Chiles economic slump. This resulted in disaster for the country, as inflation soared, strikes became common and opposition towards the Allende gover...
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Human Rights White House
1,302 wordsThe mix of economic sabotage, political propaganda and army persuasion worked. Allende found himself confronted by growing social chaos and soaring inflation. At every turn, his policies encountered well-funded adversaries. On September 11, 1973, amid the mounting chaos, Chiles military struck. In a classic coup data, the army seized control of strategic sites throughout the country and cornered Allende in his presidential offices. He died in a shootout, apparently shooting himself in the head t...
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U S Government Secretary Of State
979 wordsIn the beginning of 70 s the most tragic event in the history of Chile took place. In the countrys capital Santiago machine gunfire opened and the rebellion had begun. In the United States such events were supported by Nixon's administration, since it was a positive outcome of operations of intelligence services. Declassified U. S. government records shed light on corners of the story that previously had been suspected, but not proven. The documents describe how an angry Nixon demanded a coup, i...
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United States History United States Government
1,032 wordsBook Review The history of American Empire contains many secrets. As John S. Friedman writes, "secret histories usually reveal an unknown element of a completed event. Investigative journalism usually focuses on ongoing events. Obviously they can overlap. (Friedman) The Secret Histories: Hidden Truths That Challenged the Past and Changed the World written by John S. Friedman, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq written by Stephen Kinzer and Chalmers Johnson's The So...
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National Security Council U S Embassy
1,745 words... area that has been traditionally accepted as the U. S. backyard. (CIA, Briefing by Richard Helms for the National Security Council, 1970) Covert funds were passed into Chilean congressional campaigns; CIA agents stayed close to displeased Chilean military officers; to keep the military on edge, the CIA planted false propaganda suggesting that the Chilean left planned to take control of the armed forces. The CIA also secretly spent $ 1. 5 million as bribes into one of Chiles leading newspaper...
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Sheffield And The Atlantic Conveyor Sheffield And The Atlantic Chile
1,151 wordsGeneral studies Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chiles Hidden History Andy Beckett 280 pp, Faber On October 16, 1998, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, former dictator of Chile and self-appointed senator for life, was unexpectedly arrested while undergoing medical treatment at a clinic in London. The order for his arrest was issued by a Spanish judge after a long campaign by a Catalan lawyer and former adviser to Salvador Allende, working with Amnesty International, on charges of the murder o...
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Deep De La
595 wordsJon Robinson SPAN 3000 Pererio-Otero 10 / 24 / 99 El Narcotr? fico Antes de Pinochet la mayor? a de la product? n de la coca? na estate en los Andes de Chile donde es posible cultivar la coca. Deep? s de Pinochet decide? no permit la product? n de la droga en Chile, la industria se mud? al otro lado de la frontera con Columbia. Con este cambio empty? la transform aci? n de la industria y de un pais. Hoy, por causa de la Guerra Contra la Droga, es Columbia uno de los paises m? s violento's del mu...
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Human Rights Abuses Due To The Fact
1,406 wordsGENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was Chiles military dictator from 1973 to 1990. He became commander in chief of the army and intervene to throw Salvador Allende out of power and save Chile from Marxists chaos, and rise Chiles economy with his free market reforms that made Chile the most consistent in economic success. During his regime Pinochet practiced torture, murder, and genocide, which cause him to be condemned by the human rights groups. After eight years since Gene...
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Observer Review Pinochet Observer Review Pinochet In Piccadilly Beckett
809 wordsObserver Review: Pinochet In Piccadilly By Andy Observer Review: Pinochet In Piccadilly By Andy Beckett When Pinochet came to tea Pinochet in Piccadilly Andy Beckett Faber? 15. 99, pp 286 Idi Amin eats nothing but oranges, on the orders of his physicians. He dreams of leaving Saudi Arabia and returning to Uganda. Baby Doc Duvalier fled Haiti in 1986 with millions of dollars in his luggage. Having emptied out his monogrammed suitcases into the fleshpots of the C&# 244; te d Azur, he now lives qui...
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Presidential Palace Military Rule Lagos
970 wordsVictor Espn was euphoric last year when newly inaugurated Chilean President Ricardo Lagos opened the doors of La Moneda, the fortress-like presidential palace, to the public. I almost cried, says the 50 -year-old convenience-store owner, recalling his initial anxiety at ushering his granddaughter past the stern-looking police guards into the bomb-scarred building that is a perennial reminder of Chiles violent clash between military rule and democracy. Many Chileans were moved by their new leader...
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