Allende

Salvador Allende · 28th president of Chile (1908–1973 · 1908–1973

Appears in 6 videos · 6 passages, 1 of them in depth.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Salvador Allende in brief allusions spread over several years. He comes back to him mainly to recall the insults Nixon aims at him while the presidential palace in Santiago is being bombed1, and to say that Nixon welcomes his death2. He sees him as a Marxist who plays by the democratic rules and is removed by force3. In more recent sessions, he stresses Allende's humanism: Allende never has troops fire on demonstrators and finds himself caught between the CIA and the Trotskyists of the truckers' union4. In 2024, he calls Allende a great humanist who refuses to have his opponents fired upon, and makes that refusal the reason Pinochet comes to power5. Over the sessions, the focus thus moves from the victim insulted by American power to a reflection on the cost of refusing violence.

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Who is this?

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973. As a socialist committed to democracy, he has been described as the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America. […]

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