The Murder of Salvador Allende
Author | : Toronto Free Theatre Archives |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Murder of Salvador Allende Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Murder Of Allende PDF full book. Access full book title The Murder Of Allende.
Author | : Toronto Free Theatre Archives |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Oscar Guardiola-Rivera |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608198960 |
Presents an account of the short rise and fall of President Salvador Allende, who died of gunshot wounds on September 11, 1973, following the military coup that deposed him.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Chile |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Chile |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Róbinson Rojas |
Publisher | : New York : Harper & Row |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Chile |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robinson Rojas Sandford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Oscar Guardiola-Rivera |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1408830086 |
On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America's first democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d'état. Early that morning the phone lines to Allende's office were cut, army officers loyal to the republic were arrested and shortly afterwards bombs from four British-made Hawker Hunter jets began slamming into the presidential palace. Allende refused to leave his post, making broadcasts to encourage the Chilean people until the last pro-government radio station was silenced. Later that morning he was found dead, with an AK-47 that had been a gift from Fidel Castro by his side.The coup had been planned for months, even years before it actually happened. In fact, from the moment Allende's electoral victory in 1970 became a possibility, business leaders in Chile, extreme right-wing groups, high-ranking officers in the Chilean military and the US administration and the CIA worked together to secure a prompt and dramatic end to his progressive social programme.Why Allende seemed such a threat in the political and economic context of the time and how the coup was engineered is the story Oscar Guardiola-Rivera tells, drawing on a wide range of sources, including phone transcripts and documents released as recently as 2008. It is a radical retelling of a moment in history that even at the height of Cold War paranoia - a time when Henry Kissinger described Chile as 'a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica' -shocked the world and which continues to resonate today. As the uprisings of the Arab Spring and the global protests at austerity measures introduced since the crash of 2008 show, the world is struggling to deal with the economic and political dilemmas Allende faced at the time.
Author | : Tanya Harmer |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2011-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807869246 |
Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende's left-wing government while Chilean opposition forces mobilized against him. The result was a battle for Chile that ended in 1973 with a right-wing military coup and a brutal dictatorship lasting nearly twenty years. Tanya Harmer argues that this battle was part of a dynamic inter-American Cold War struggle to determine Latin America's future, shaped more by the contest between Cuba, Chile, the United States, and Brazil than by a conflict between Moscow and Washington. Drawing on firsthand interviews and recently declassified documents from archives in North America, Europe, and South America--including Chile's Foreign Ministry Archive--Harmer provides the most comprehensive account to date of Cuban involvement in Latin America in the early 1970s, Chilean foreign relations during Allende's presidency, Brazil's support for counterrevolution in the Southern Cone, and the Nixon administration's Latin American policies. The Cold War in the Americas, Harmer reveals, is best understood as a multidimensional struggle, involving peoples and ideas from across the hemisphere.
Author | : Samuel Chavkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
An inside story of the coup in Chile describes the end of the Allende government and death of the president, the terrorist activities of the Junta against the Chilean people, and resistance to the present regime
Author | : Peter Kornbluh |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595589953 |
Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker). Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government’s complicity with atrocity in a foreign country. The book now completes the file on Pinochet’s story, detailing his multiple indictments between 2004 and his death on December 10, 2006, including the Riggs Bank scandal that revealed how the dictator had illegally squirreled away over $26 million in ill-begotten wealth in secret American bank accounts. When it was first released in hardcover, The Pinochet File contributed to the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism. A new afterword tells the extraordinary story of Henry Kissinger’s attempt to undercut the book’s reception—efforts that generated a major scandal that led to a high-level resignation at the Council on Foreign Relations, illustrating the continued ability of the book to speak truth to power. “The Pinochet File should be considered the long awaited book of record on U.S. intervention in Chile . . . A crisp compelling narrative, almost a political thriller.” —Los Angeles Times