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MUCH NONSENSE has been written in the American press about Salvador Allende and the Chilean revolution. The picture the press has presented--and continues to present with renewed fervor despite the bloody golpe de estado against the Allende government--runs something like this: Chile, a prosperous nation with a long tradition of stable democracy, moved into the vanguard of Latin American progress in the late 1960s under the enlightened leadership of President Eduardo Frei. The popular Frei, who led the Christian Democratic Party, guided Chile well along the road to reform when the Chilean Constitution unfortunately intervened...
...Salvador Allende took office in November 1970 in a country that had already experienced several years of a political and economic crisis that showed little signs of improvement. Just before he was sworn in, one of a number of proliferating fascist groups assassinated the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, hoping to ignite a civil...
...weeks ago, Salvador Allende died, apparently by his own hand, as the Chilean military prepared to storm the Palace after a two-hour air and artillery bombardment. He died as he had lived, fighting for socialism, for justice, for the Santiago children who never got enough to eat. He fought with speeches and ballots, and now his remaining companeros will fight with guns...
POSSIBLY, Salvador Allende was a great man, one who will rank forever as a hero of the world's people. Certainly, he was a brave and dedicated man, whose acts, even to the end, never swerved from his ideals. But most of all, Salvador Allende was a good and decent man, a simpatico hombre, whose agony at the suffering he saw about him was matched only by his smiling determination to banish it from Chile forever...
...Salvador Allende may be dead, but for those who will draw renewed strength from the courage of his life, he still lives...