(Salvador Allende Gossens; Valparaíso, 1908 - Santiago de Chile, 1973) Chilean politician, leader of the Socialist Party, of which he was also co-founder in 1933. He was president of Chile from 1970 until the coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet on September 11, 1973, the day he died in the Moneda Palace, which was bombed by the coup plotters.
Salvador Allende belonged to a well-to-do middle-class family. He studied medicine and, since his university days, he was part of leftist groups. Later, he alternated his dedication to politics with his professional practice. He participated in the parliamentary election of 1937, and was elected deputy for Valparaíso. He was Minister of Health in Pedro Aguirre Cerda's cabinet between 1939 and 1942. From then on he became the undisputed leader of the socialist party.
In 1952, 1958 and 1962 he ran for the presidential elections. On the first occasion he was temporarily expelled from the party for accepting the support of the communists, who had been outlawed, and came in fourth place. In 1958, with socialist and communist support, he came in second place behind Jorge Alessandri. In the third the result of the presidential elections of September 4, 1964 was clear and definitive with he victory of Eduardo Frei
In parallel with the advance of important social measures, the political panorama during the Frei Montalva administration was one of increasing polarization, even within the Christian Democrat Party, which suffered important divisions, as well as the detachment of sectors of its youth towards positions more closely linked to the left. Finally, the 1969 parliamentary elections showed the new political situation of the country, as their results pointed to the emergence of irreconcilable thirds, largely due to the decrease in support for the political center and the strengthening of left and right-wing options.
This situation was most clearly reflected in the 1970 presidential elections, marked by the confrontation of antagonistic and impossible to reconcile social projects. The alliance of communists, socialists, sectors of radicalism and the MAPU in the called Popular Unity, headed by Allende, was victorious with 36.3% of the votes. The narrow margin of difference with the votes received by the other two candidates, Jorge Alessandri for the right wing and Radomiro Tomic for the Christian Democracy, forced Allende's election to be ratified by the congress, where he faced strong opposition. Finally, on October 24, 1970, after obtaining the support of the Christian Democratic Party with the signing of a Statute of Democratic Guarantees that would be incorporated into the constitutional text, Salvador Allende was proclaimed president.
Allende's presidency
From the date of the beginning of the mandate (November 3), the difficulties that the new government had to face were immense. Even before the presidential inauguration, attempts were made to abort the process, the most serious of which ended with the assassination by an ultra-right-wing commando supported by the CIA of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, General René Schneider, who was a strong supporter of the subordination of military power to civilian power.
In spite of this, the Popular Unity, once in government, undertook the implementation of its plan of action, which emphasized the deepening of the reformist measures initiated by the previous administration. Thus, the volume of expropriated lands was increased and the socialization of important enterprises, until then in private hands, was initiated, which were then managed by workers' cooperatives advised by pro-government officials. In addition, the nationalization of copper was carried out, without payment of indemnities to the North American companies, which meant a confrontation with the United States, which from that moment on openly supported the groups opposed to the socialist government.
In spite of this rigid opposition, Allende's government enjoyed significant support from the citizenry, particularly from the popular sectors, which benefited directly. In effect, the State subsidized a large part of the basic services, in addition to supporting organizations of workers, peasants and urban dwellers in their demands for participation.
This support for Allende's presidency was clearly demonstrated in the parliamentary elections of 1971 and the municipal elections of 1973, in which the Popular Unity parties increased the number of votes. Along with this, the political discourse of the leftist parties became increasingly radical, while the open confrontation with opposition groups became a reality in the streets and indicated a situation of class struggle in their eyes inevitable.
Actions of groups such as the MIR and sectors of the Socialist Party confirmed this diagnosis, considering urgent the creation and strengthening of "Popular Power" instances that would be alternatives to the narrow frameworks that the institutional framework prefixed for a possible construction of a socialist society. This attempt, known as the "Chilean Way to Socialism", received the interest and support of sectors from all over the world, particularly from the Soviet Bloc, Cuba and the Non-Aligned Countries, which translated into the sending of material aid and industrial advisors.
Despite all this, a series of problems further polarized Chilean society under Allende's presidency, largely due to economic causes. Inflation became uncontrollable, since salary increases and State expenditures were financed with the issuance of money without a basis in production, which was diminished and contracted as a consequence of the blockade initiated by the United States and the permanent conflict that many companies were experiencing, in virtual permanent paralysis due to the lack of resources.
This climate of shortages and crisis, encouraged by the different political sectors, resulted in numerous mobilizations in favor and against the Allende government, the most important of which was the stoppage of the El Teniente copper deposit, together with the strike of the transport workers' unions, which practically paralyzed the movement of goods from one point to another in the country. In addition to this, there were conflicts in the university and professional associations (mainly doctors and teachers), which created a deep division in all areas of national life.
Faced with such a situation, the President decided to take, already in 1973, measures that would serve as vehicles for dialogue and negotiation with the Christian Democrat opposition, such as the entry of important military figures to the cabinet, represented by the Commander in Chief, General Carlos Prats, and the offer to hold a plebiscite to consult the citizens on the continuity of the regime or the call for new elections. These measures were followed by a hardening of the most radical positions of the left, which proposed to the President the closing of Congress and the use of Extraordinary Powers to govern.
The right wing and some sectors of Christian Democracy considered the situation unsolvable, so they decided, more or less openly, to resort to the military coup d'état against President Allende. In June 1973 there was a first coup attempt, known as "El Tancazo": an armored regiment in the capital rose up against the government, but the loyal forces, headed by Prats, managed to dominate the situation.
Finally, on September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup, during which he bombed the Moneda Palace, the seat of government. President Allende refused the demands of surrender and died in the presidential palace. In 1990 his body was exhumed from the anonymous grave in which he was buried, and received a formal and public burial in Santiago.
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If it helps it took me almost till my 30s. Never to late to discover who you are.
Same here, into my 30s before I figured out that I had the same feelings for guys and girls. Married and happy though so figure it doesn't matter so much 🤷♂️
The world is a wild place
I was just sitting at the train station, train was late (as usual with German trains) and this guy next to me basically goes "Man, Deutsche Bahn always late, right?"
I make some comment back about "Yeah, looks like there's a bigger issue somewhere." and we kinda begin to chat, he tells me he's a Kurd from Iraq and shows me a picture of his family etc.
He seemed like a nice guy who doesn't have many connections here in Germany and just appreciates having people to talk to, so when the train comes we get on together and I ask him some questions about his country and the language, stuff I find genuinely interesting.
At some point he takes my phone, opens youtube and types in his own name, only to show me a freaking highlight reel of his 19 years fighting fucking ISIS in Kurdistan, pictures of him wielding RPGs, mortars, mounted machine guns, pictures of him with high-ranking Kurdish generals that have their own wiki pages, he tells me about how his dad died when he was 5 and he eventually decided to come to Germany so his kids could learn to read instead of only knowing war.
And now this guy is here working low-paying security jobs. This guy who has seen more shit than I (hopefully) will ever see in my life. What the hell, man.
Yeah I respect the troops and by "the troops" I exclusively mean my man Samir
I was just talking to some friends about Somalia and the Black Hawk Down incident, and how some of the folks I met over the years almost certainly knew people involved in the battle on whatever side. idk, when I was a kid wars were something that happened Over There™ but as I started meeting, well, not-white people the world got a lot smaller and the shit going down on the other side of the planet got a whole lot more real. Do you ever have any moments like that, where you get a little hear rush and realize that some event you read about in the news really, really happened? Like it's not an abstract thing anymore? idk how to really explain the feeling.
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I always get furious when neolibs suggest Allende went "too far" and got what was coming to him
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[his] heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water.
same dude
I saw this on the Belarus Wikipedia page.
ShowI dare someone to do the same to the US. Bonus if you open a talk about the double standard lol.
2016-2020 President Donald trump (dispusted). Sources: Olivia wilde Trump is not a legitimate president trump is not america we love america video.
FUCK enjoying the little things. I had every right to be frustrated and annoyed this morning. Now there were kind people, curious oddities, good music, and cute animals on my commute and I'm happy
It's not that you'll never have the right to be annoyed, the theory, as I understand it, is that it's important to acknowledge your freedom to react however you damn well please to the circumstances of your present moment and the bodily sensations therein. One might also argue that getting caught up in frustration could take a temporary feeling of stifled energy and retain it for much longer than it would take for the sensation to dissipate otherwise. Taking stock of the little joys is a tool in the toolkit to do this. Some days it's easier said than done, clearly.
Feel it, acknowledge it, take a deep breath, and follow what resonates for you.
I was just saying I was in a good mood after a shitty early morning cuz I do enjoy the little things
My horoscope: "You're heart is your biggest asset"
I guess the stars don't know about my phat ass
In a comment in my local sub I mentioned the GOP and Nazis. I got a PM not a reply...
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Sounds like some Nazi was triggered by being compared to GOP scum.
I only comment in a very small number of subs so I don't know if bot "GOP/Nazi" bot PMs are a thing. But that's the first time I've gotten one.
I'll leave this here...
Conservative: "I have been censored for my conservative views."
Me: "Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?"
Con: "LOL no... No, not those views"
Me: "So... deregulation?"
Con: "Haha. No, not those views either."
Me: "Which views, exactly?"
Con: "Oh, you know the ones. For using my freedom of speech."
I'm glad the election takes have already started, so happy to see endless tweets that all boil down to the same point, there is nothing the Democrats can do or not do that will ever make it unconscionable to vote for their candidates in any and all elections.
Wish that at least the radlibs would drop the tedious rationalizations and say that flat out.
Wish that at least the radlibs would drop the tedious rationalizations and say that flat out.
"Vote blue no matter who"?
Typically doesn't end there though, the slightest challenge will launch them into ranting about all the moral reasons for it being an absolute necessity and trying to scold whoever is not 100% on board.
Sick of seeing that part of it.
“As an anti-war leftist I feel a moral imperative to vote for trump because he will end the senseless slaughter in Ukraine”
The internet is a big spider web made of magic full of small gay people with opinions.
I fucking hate NIMBY's. One of them was clearing all the trees in their backyard because they "had to keep the property values in mind." When asked further they went on to say, "If you want 'natural' then you should probably do it somewhere else that isn't part of a community living space. I understand if you don't get this because you haven't worked for something like this."
As I gaze out across my unblemished expanse of one kind of grass I sip a cool Miller Light, grimace at the taste, and then whisper in awe, "Now this is living."
Gross. I have the name of the B*itish freak who is responsible for 's obsession with green concrete and if I get a time machine he's second on the list after John Calvin.
Questioning someone for what they've worked for is best left for extreme situations where someone is persistently gloating or egregiously out of the loop. Like if someone earnestly and doggedly believes that homeless people should just buy a house. One small tap and not for self-aggrandizing ends. Questioning what someone has earned is such an easy way to create resentment and complexes. It's an invalidating thought-terminator. Using it early says so much more about you than the person you're talking to.
No one is ever going to admit it, but chatgpt is actually the final boss of plagiarism (and from a capitalist POV intellectual property theft)
Amazing how it doesn’t seem to matter when it’s lucrative for the parasites on top huh 🤔
Manually copying other people's work
Asking a computer to copy other people's work for you
I had a revelation today. Libs don't care about controlling guns or reducing gun violence or any of that shit.
They care about passing gun violence legislation.
It's not about achieving anything in the real world. They're performing rituals of devotion to the American Civic Religion.
If they actually wanted to change anything they'd realize that they need at least 60 votes, and that will never happen, and then they'd take direct action.
Do you see gun store owners being dragged out of their homes and set on fire?
Do you see gun shipments being ambushed and driven in to a river?
Do you see cement mixers, a brick on the gas pedal, being driven in to local gun stores?
Do you see gun CEOs being gunned down in the street with their own guns?
Do you see shooting ranges being vandalized?
Do you see any action being taken?
No. Because they don't want change in the real world. They want their god of civility and decorum to reach down from Washington and enact a miracle wherein they pass a couple of laws and American's 400 million guns and four hundreds years of slavery, genocide, bloodshed, and madness just vanish like a bad dream.
Because they're liberals. And liberals suck.
Hey remember when a weather balloon drifted over wyoming and the entire country lost their goddamn minds, the air force shot down two high school science experiments, everyone became an expert on Chinese drone warfare, and then the military admitted they'd tracked the thing all the way from it's launch point and just forgot to tell anyone?
Joe Brandon killed americans. He killed the sub crew. He killed the balloon. There's blood on his paws.
Today's the day Toronto finds out if it will get a halfway decent mayor or yet another conservative hack
Amazingly according to most polls the socdem candidate is leading by over 10% above the girlboss conservative and the ex cop who's only campaign promise is to give more money to the cops. I hope they're right, the petty bourgeois tears will be so good
I'm really glad the conservatives weren't smart enough to narrow the field this time around. Too bad that Olivia Chow will likely suffer a similar fate to David Miller, be cursed spending their tenure trying to undo the damage conservative predecessors did.
I'm trying to be optimistic about what she can accomplish, but definitely gonna be an uphill battle with the municipal backlog and the province likely trying to kneecap her. It seems like in the last week the right has been trying to center Bailao but we'll see if it was too late.