Recently, I have been reading more about the Chilean coup.
Where do you think Allende made his error that resulted in his downfall?
If you were in his position (having been elected as a socialist and successfully taken power, while in the shadow of the United States and having a military hostile to you), what would you have done differently?
Im late to this askchapo but I can tell you that a key factor to consider is that Allende barely got elected, with only 36% of the popular vote and he ruled under the threat of impeachement since day 1. Anything remotely close to a purge would have him ousted by congress in a second
Also, while in hindsight it was obvious that there would be a coup, at the time there was spme perception that “Chile is a democratic country, that kind pf thing doesnt happen here”, so for most of his goverment his main enemies were rival politicians and especially big businesses tht would conduct tactical strikes to disrupt the supply of goods (Chile was suffrering one of its worst economic crisis in modern history right before the coup)Touching the military a little too much would make every powerful person destroy him through the economy or through the goverment.