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Salvador Allende’s Brief Experiment in Radical Democracy in Chile Began 50 Years Ago Today
Socialist leader Salvador Allende became Chile’s president fifty years ago today. Allende’s election inaugurated a unique experiment in radical democracy that was cut short by Augusto Pinochet’s brutal US-backed coup.