Quotes About Allende

Pero era un Allende «sanitizado» el que era homenajeado, convertido en mártir republicano por la democracia, desprovisto de los objetivos socialistas y revolucionarios por los cuales vivió y murió.

En el movimiento estudiantil chileno entre 2011 y 2013, el espíritu de la revolución chilena de los tiempos de Allende parece una herencia viva, y es tal vez una inspiración para el levantamiento de una revolución democrática que busque una nueva vía chilena, un socialismo para el siglo xxi.

Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said: 'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium.

Nixon pressed him relentlessly, and also because the anti-Allende project fit perfectly with his view of the world and of America's place in it.

As Allende was trying to withstand the American campaign, he also faced intense pressure from groups of workers and peasants whose revolutionary passion he had helped to awaken.

The main concern in Chile is that [Allende] can consolidate himself, and the picture projected to the world will be his success. . . . If we let the potential leaders in South America think they can move like Chile and have it both ways, we will be in trouble.

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

Matias Eyzaguirre was at the port as well, with his car and a bouquet of roses for his reluctant fiancée.

popular outcry forced the return of The Lion, who ended his term by seeing a new constitution put into effect.

Eran solteros y si alguien les preguntaba, decían que estaban muy curtidos para creer en las lindezas del amor y amarrarse a una sola mujer.

The parties of the left joined together in a coalition called the Unidad Popular, which included the Communist Party. The United States was alarmed despite the results of polls giving the victory to the right, and it designated several million dollars for defeating Allende.

The CIA orchestrated a plan to prevent Allende from assuming the presidency. First it tried to bribe members of Congress not to designate Allende and to call for a second vote

Alma Belasco had caught her attention. She stood

Atrás quedó el Cuzco, coronado por la fortaleza sagrada de Sacsayhuamán, bajo un cielo azulino.

He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.

Victor's nephew was plump and bald: all babies that age looked like Winston Churchill to him.

still fought duels, because he thought that bandits lurked on the Curacaví Hill

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

armed with an AK47 - a gift from Fidel Castro, the man he had sought to emulate. As the tanks rumbled towards him, Allende realized it was all over and, cornered in what was left of his quarters, shot himself.

Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a conspiracy, on the economic crisis, that he blamed the high inflation that sabotaged him on the United States, and that he was frequently accusing the little lambs of Nixon and Kissinger of a coup. But everything became known later.

Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile's problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems.

Salvador Allende: Contra Judíos, Homosexuales y otros ´degenerados´".