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| | Chile. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | In the 1964 presidential election (in which Eduardo Frei Montalva was elected) and in the 1965 congressional elections, the Christian Democratic party won overwhelming victories over the Socialist-Communist coalition. |
 | | In 1970, Salvador Allende Gossens, head of the Popular Unity party, a coalition of leftist political parties, won a plurality of votes in the presidential election and became the first Marxist to be elected president by popular vote in Latin America. |
 | | During this time the British expatriot Lord Cochrane, commanding the Chilean navy, cleared (181920) the coast of Spanish shipping, and in 1826 the remaining royalists were driven from Chiloé island, their last foothold on Chilean soil. |
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