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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    Salvador Allende, President of Chile and leader of the Socialist Party of Chile

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    On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d’état supported by the CIA, which initially denied the allegations. In 2000, the CIA admitted its role in the 1970 kidnapping of General René Schneider who had refused to use the army to stop Allende’s inauguration. Declassified documents released in 2023 showed that US president Richard Nixon, his national security advisor Henry Kissinger, and the United States government, which had branded Allende as a “dangerous” communist, were aware of the military’s plans to overthrow Allende’s democratically elected government in the days before the coup d’état. As troops surrounded La Moneda Palace, Allende gave his last speech vowing not to resign. Later that day, Allende died by suicide in his office; the exact circumstances of his death are still disputed.