Salvador Allende Gossens rose to power in 1970 as the President of Chile. First, he won 36 percent plurality of the election, but this was not the majority needed to be guaranteed presidency. The next step was to negotiate the terms for his approval as president with the Chilean Congress. He was approved but had to make some adjustments to the constitution to prevent a Soviet Union-like society from emerging. These changes included wage increases for low wage workers while free, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, and other basic freedoms. (Cold War Reference Library) Allende was decidedly the best candidate for the election as he was the only one who could “bring together the groups necessary to win the election.” This included the …show more content…
Propaganda was cheap and widely used by the CIA to criticize the Soviet Union and global communism while supporting US-style democracies. This included the establishment of assets in Chile that were willing to do what the US wanted, and the funding of establishments that would criticize the Allende administration and/or support US propaganda. The most prominent of these media outlets was the newspaper called El Mercurio. The funding of media sources by the US continued even during Allende’s presidency, aimed at decreasing his popularity and coaxing a revolution, uprising, or overthrow. (US Congress, US Covert Action in Chile) Another form of interference was the funding of opposing political parties that would prevent a socialist government from emerging. One such example is the CIA spending of 2.6 million dollars in support of the Christian Democratic candidate for the presidential election of 1964 in Chile. (US Congress, US Covert Action in …show more content…
To combat the nationalization of industry, the 40 Committee - a sub-cabinet level of body of the executive branch which reviewed covert plans - provided “$24,000 as emergency support for an anti-Allende [business] organization.” (US Congress, US Covert Action in Chile) I think the CIA’s wide access to money only emphasizes a growing economic gap (in world trade) between the Global North and the Global South at this time as the US was overflowing with money and Chilean people were starving from lack of basic needs. US President Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to orchestrate a military putsch in the fall of 1970 to try and disrupt the flow of the Allende bureaucracy. This plan came to be known as Track II and involved the abduction of Chile’s commander in chief, General Rene Schneider. On October 22, the men in charge of this plan shot Scheider and the next day, Schneider died in a hospital from multiple gunshot wounds. The plan had gone astray. (Peter Kornbluh, Showdown in Santiago: what really happened in Chile?) The CIA then provided the gang with $35,000 to flee Chile and keep silent about the operation. However, this did not mark the end of the program. Thomas Karamessines, a superior officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, states: “what we were told to do was to continue our efforts. Stay alert, and to do what we could to contribute to the eventual achievement of the objectives
At first, the working class heavily supported Allende's campaign. A new movement of younger worker influence occurred during this time period, allowing Allende to accomplish many of the things he did. For instance, in the Yarur factory there was the "strike of 1962" which was the workers rebellion to the new Taylor system of the new generation of workers. They also rebelled because of the "union question" which revolved around three things: job security, free unions, and the elimination of the Taylor system. These were all things that Allende promised to fix, so naturally after a 9 week strike the people of the Yarur factory supported Allende and the promises he gave. All the workers in the Yarur factory were also deeply affected by the characteristics of postwar Chile: "dependency and stagflation, economic inequality and social inequality, the concentration of wealth and the persistence of poverty, the hegemony of the rich and the powerlessness of the poor" (54). These characteristics were the reasons that the working class suffered in Chile, as well as the...
The first turning point in hope for the Chilean road to socialism was that of the election of Salvador Allende as president, which gave many Yarur workers the belief that a ‘workers government’ was on their side. “For the first time, a self-proclaimed ‘workers government’ ruled Chile, dominated by the Left and pledged to socialist revolution” (Winn, 53). Allende’s role as president gave identity to the Yarur workers that they were being represented and because of this, their struggles of working in the factory conditions set by Amador Yarur would come to an end. This identification with Allende as being represented by their own voice became the first stepping-stone to the demand for socialization of the factory. “The election of a ‘Popular Government’ was a signal for them to take the revolution into their own hands and fulfill their historic aspirations through direct action from below” (Winn, 140)....
Salvador Allende promised to redistribute Chile's income (only two percent of the population received forty-six percent of the income), nationalize major industries (especially the copper companies), and to expand relations with socialist and communist countries. Allende's presidency presented a threat to the United States; a man with such aspirations would have to stray from United States policies and the policies of all other countries. Allende would neither respect nor consider the work the United States had done for them in the past. The United States would no longer be able to act as a parasite, sucking the money out of Chile. The U.S. decided it must stop this man from rising to power as soon as possible.
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Conflict, and compromise. What is it? It is a problem, and a solution, in which our (Evan and I) topic claims. Our topic is about Salvador Allende, the president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, and what he did as a president. He was a socialist president, and this caused problems, but this also created solutions. Chile had problems with inflation and malnourished children and people trying to overthrow Allende. Allende didn’t pay attention to the negative people, and mainly focused his idea of socialism on the working, middle class.
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