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  Articles - Chilean coup of 1973   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Chilean coup d´Ã©tat of September 11, 1973 was a watershed event in the history of Chile and the Cold War.
In Chile´s 1970 presidential election, in accordance with the constitution, Congress resolved the 3-way split — between Salvador Allende (with 36.3% of the vote), conservative (and former president) Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez (35.8%), and the Christian Democrat Radomiro Tomic (27.9%) — by voting to approve Allende´s narrow plurality.
The majority of the Chilean population were at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum and had grown weary of perennial problems that were affecting the country.
www.quickize.com /articles/Chilean_coup_of_1973   (4354 words)

  
 Church Report
In the 1970 election, for instance, the CIA used "fl" propaganda to sow discord between the Communists and the Socialists and between the national labor confederation and the Chilean Communist Party.
The groundwork for the election was laid early in 1961 by establishing operational relationships with key political parties and by creating propaganda and organizational mechanisms capable of influencing key sectors of the population.
Chilean newspapers reported: an endorsement of Frei by the sister of a Latin American leader, a public letter from a former president in exile in the U.S., a "message from the women of Venezuela." and dire warnings about an Allende victory from various figures in military governments in Latin America.
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /history/johnson/churchreport.htm   (16976 words)

  
 Selected Documents Pertaining to 1964 Election in Chile
Moreover, parliamentary elections are scheduled for March 1965, and it is unlikely that many parliamentarians will conclude that their reelection will be best assured by going against the will of the people by flouting Chile’s proud democratic spirit and by assuming the responsibility for the civil unrest that would follow such a decision.
The Curico by-elections of 15 March 1964 changed the Chilean political spectrum radically by forcing the withdrawal of the Democratic Front’s presidential candidate, Julio Duran, and disrupting the Democratic Front coalition composed of the Liberal, Conservative, and Radical parties.
Clearly, the September election will be determined by factors which are deeply rooted in the political, economic, and social fabric of the Chilean scene and by the campaign abilities of the major contenders.
www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/news/20040925/docs.htm   (5230 words)

  
 History of Chile - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The political revolt brought little social change, however, and 19th century Chilean society preserved the essence of the stratified colonial social structure, family politics, and the influence of the Roman Catholic Church.
Allende had two main competitors in the election — Radomiro Tomic, representing the incumbent Christian Democratic party, who ran a left-wing campaign with much the same theme as Allende's, and the right-wing former president Jorge Alessandri.
Immediately after the election, the United States expressed its disapproval and raised a number of economic sanctions against Chile.
www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=5490   (5191 words)

  
 Docs 245-278
Since the estimated electorate for the 1964 presidential elections is two and one quarter million, either candidate will have to poll roughly one million, one hundred, and fifty thousand votes to win.
Chilean President Alessandri thinks Frei is ahead but he also went to great lengths in a recent conversation with our Ambassador to urge that the United States keep an open mind on Allende and not cut off financial assistance should Allende win.
The election, he said, served as a reminder of the strength of democratic institutions throughout Latin America; it was a victory for democracy as well as a defeat for communism, i.e.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xxxi/36308.htm   (15951 words)

  
 TNI The Pinochet Precedent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Training of Chilean military personnel in Panama also rose during the Allende years (see Table V) After the failure of Track II, the CIA rebuilt its network of contacts and remained close to Chilean military officers in order to monitor developments within the armed forces.
However, access to certain Chilean media outlets was retained in order to enable the CIA Station in Santiago to help build Chilean public support for the new government as well as to influence the direction of the government, through pressures exerted by the mass media.
The question of whether anything should be done with regard to the September 1970 presidential election in Chile was first raised at a meeting of the 303 Committee on April 15, 1969.
www.tni.org /pin-docs/covert.htm   (19263 words)

  
 Allende   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Allende was born in 1908 in the port of Valparaíso, the son of Salvador Allende Castro and Laura Gossens Uribe.
She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
His Popular Unity government was the only freely elected Marxist national government in history; it was when he was overthrown in a military coup d'état (see Chilean coup of 1973), during which Allende died.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/6/allende.html   (1674 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - November 8 - Calendar Encyclopedia
1864 - U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
1932 - U.S. presidential election, 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
1988 - U.S. presidential election, 1988: George H. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /November_8.htm   (1256 words)

  
 news
However the approaching race in New Hampshire will be a lot tougher as Bush tries to compete with John McCain for moderate Republican votes and independent votes, whilst still facing strong competition from several staunch conservative Republicans.
The close result means that a "Run-off" election must be held the following month between the two contenders.
The election of Presidential candidate Vicente Fox is a fantastic result for his Centre Right party, the National Action Party (PAN).
www.geocities.com /Pacific_Future/news.html   (762 words)

  
 November 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1892 - U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
1960 - U.S. presidential election, 1960: John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest man elected to that office.
1991 - Sonny Bono is elected to the U.S. Congress; at the same time, Marion Barry is reelected mayor of Washington, D.C. - For the first time in 40 years the United States Republican Party takes control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections.
www.godseye.com /stat/en/n/o/v/November_8.html   (1095 words)

  
 Truman Library - Paul H. Nitze Oral History Interviews, June 11 and June 17, 1975
During this entire period, for instance, the Chilean copper we bought at 14 cents a pound, which was a reasonable price, taking into account Kennecott and Anaconda's cost in Chile.
He was a boughten man. He had been president of a bank in Wisconsin someplace or other, and during the depths of the depression that bank had gone broke.
But he had been a money raiser, I think, for the Roosevelt campaign in 1932, or I don't know '36, '40 or sometime in there and had gotten a certain position in the Democratic party in that connection.
www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/nitzeph1.htm   (19911 words)

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