Cleveland.com

Chile’s lessons, 50 years after Allende’s overthrow: Steven Volk

OBERLIN, Ohio -- Sept. 11 marked the 50th anniversary of the coup which toppled the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile, leading to a brutal 17-year-long dictatorship whose ...
The Hill

I was a witness to the 1973 US-backed coup in Chile. It changed my life.

Twists and turns and unexpected events are part of the experience of being human. Many of these unexpected happenings have profound consequences on our lives — some are welcome and joyful, some tragic ...
The New York Times

Salvador Allende

Chile’s new leader wants to rewrite its past and recast its future. By Ariel Dorfman For much of the 20th century, the C.I.A. devised plots to overthrow governments, kill high-profile leaders or arm ...
The Washington Post

Thirty Years On, a Chilean Laments 'We All Killed Allende'

IOWA CITY -- Roberto Ampuero was a 20-year-old member of the Chilean Communist Students Organization when the elected president of his country, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a bloody coup on ...
Foreign Affairs

Fleeing the Chilean Coup

The myth that the United States toppled President Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973 lives. In 1975, a Senate subcommittee headed by Frank Church -- a stalwart Democrat and no friend of the Nixon ...
Seattle Times

A civil war in Chile and a president’s death by suicide inspired Isabel Allende’s new novel

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A bloody civil war and the tragic death by suicide of an ousted president served as inspiration for Isabel Allende’s new novel, “My Name is Emilia del Valle.” The story centers on ...