Salvador Allende Biography

Salvador Allende biography

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NAME: Salvador Isabelino del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Allende Gossens
OCCUPATION: World Leader
BIRTH DATE: June 26, 1908
DEATH DATE: September 11, 1973
EDUCATION: University of Chile

PLACE OF BIRTH: Valparaíso, Chile
PLACE OF DEATH: Santiago, Chile
AKA: Salvador Allende Gossens

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Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until 1973, and the first democratically elected Marxist president of Latin American country.

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Salvador Allende's political life spanned a period of forty years. He helped found Chile's Socialist Party, was elected a senator, deputy and cabinet minister. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in the 1952, 1958, and 1964 elections. In 1970, he won the presidency in a close three-way race. During a military coup in 1973, the presidential palace was attacked and Allende was killed.