A few Unitarian and UU congregations in other countries, such as San Miguel de Allende ( Mexico ), Puerto Rico, Auckland ( New Zealand ), and a few others are also members of the UUA.

Allende also intended to improve the socio-economic welfare of Chile's poorest citizens ; a key element was to provide employment, either in the new nationalised enterprises or on public work projects.

Price controls were also set up, while the Allende Government introduced a system of distribution networks through various agencies ( including local committees on supply and prices ) to ensure that the new rules were adhered to by shopkeepers.

The Allende Government also sought to bring the arts ( both serious and popular ) to the mass of the Chilean population by funding a number of cultural endeavours.

The Allende Government was also able to draw upon the idealism of its supporters, with teams of " Allendistas " travelling into the countryside and shanty towns to perform volunteer work.

The Chilean economy also suffered as a result of a US campaign against the Allende government.

Allende also froze all prices while raising salaries.

Allende also instructed the government to begin requisitioning trucks in order to keep the nation from coming to a halt.

ITT president Harold Geneen also offered $ 1 million to the CIA to help defeat Allende in the elections.

It is also claimed that Allende was given $ 30, 000 " in order to solidify the trusted relations " with him.

Allende also said that he had witnessed the Eldridge appear and disappear while serving aboard the, a nearby merchant ship.

He is also a major character in several historical novels, such as Inés y las raíces de la tierra, by María Correa Morande ( 1964 ), Ay Mamá Inés-Crónica Testimonial ( 1993 ) by Jorge Guzmán, and Inés of My Soul () by Isabel Allende ( 2006 ).

Allende strongly protested these events and while Hidalgo agreed that they were heinous, he also stated that he understood the historical patterns that shaped such responses.

In 1970 he also requested and participated in a high level meeting of Chilean businessman and publisher Augustin Edwards Eastman with high Nixon administration officials, after which President Nixon met with then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and CIA Director Richard Helms and, in the words of a 1976 New York Times article, said " that Chile was to be saved from Allende and he didn't care much how.

Chávez was also influenced by the South American tradition of cooperativism early in his life, such as that practiced by Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Salvador Allende.

Chile also has important classic composers such as Alfonso Leng, Pedro Humberto Allende, Domingo Santa Cruz and others.

Isabel Allende from Chile contributes to Latin-American literature and occasionally writes in a style called magical realism or vivid story-telling, also used by Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo and Salman Rushdie.

It was also the gate through which the body of President Allende was taken out after the 1973 coup.

In direct terms, the United States contributed US $ 20 million to the campaign, but they also sent in about 100 people with assigned tasks to prevent Allende ` s victory.

Allende also received new sources of credit that was valued between $ 600 million and $ 950 million in 1972 and $ 547 million by June 1973.

The International Monetary Fund also loaned $ 100 million to Chile during the Allende years.

" However, the 2000 report also stated that: " The major CIA effort against Allende came earlier in 1970 in the failed attempt to block his election and accession to the Presidency.

The quite enigmatic role played by the CIA within the frame of those programs also fed the controversy, which reached its peak with the overthrow and murder of Chilean President Salvador Allende after an alleged CIA-sponsored military coup in 1973-a controversy still not closed.

Not only did he compose President Salvador Allende ’ s electoral theme song, " Venceremos " (" We Shall Triumph "), he was also the author of the worldwide anthem of popular resistance, "¡ El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!

González undertook a significant role in the opposition to Allende and supported Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup which deposed Allende.

The socialist-run government of Salvador Allende in Chile experimented with Project Cybersyn, a real-time information bridge between the government, state enterprises and consumers.

Recent documents declassified under the Clinton administration's Chile Declassification Project show that the United States government and the CIA sought the overthrow of Allende in 1970 immediately before he took office (" Project FUBELT ").

* Project FUBELT-secret CIA operations to unseat Allende

* Project FUBELT – secret CIA operations to unseat Allende.

* Project FUBELT-codename for CIA operations to undermine Allende

Project Cybersyn was a Chilean attempt in the years 1971 – 1973 ( during the government of President Salvador Allende ) to construct a top-down command and control decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy.

Project FUBELT ( also known as Track II ) is the code name for the secret Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) operations that were to prevent Salvador Allende rise to power before his confirmation, and promote a military coup in Chile.

CIA memoranda and reports on Project FUBELT include meetings between United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CIA officials, CIA cables to its Santiago station, and summaries of secret action in 1970 — detailing decisions and operations to undermine the election of Salvador Allende in September 1970 and promote a military coup.

Station logo Metro Allende is a station on Line 2 of the Mexico City Metro system.

* Juntas de Abastecimientos y Precios, the rationing board system in Chile during the Salvador Allende regime

Isabel Allende is a prominent Chilean author of the 20th and 21st centuries.

In recent years, the tea has been popularized by Wade Davis ( The Serpent and The Rainbow ), English novelist Martin Goodman in I Was Carlos Castaneda, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, writer Kira Salak, author Jeremy Narby ( The Cosmic Serpent ), author Jay Griffiths (" Wild: An Elemental Journey "), and radio personality Robin Quivers.

Most modern assassinations have been committed either during a public performance or during transport, both because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d ' état where security is either overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely Salvador Allende.

** based on a novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende.

Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

Marchers for Salvador Allende.

In the 1970 presidential election, Senator Salvador Allende Gossens won a plurality of votes in a three-way contest.

Allende had two main competitors in the election — Radomiro Tomic, representing the incumbent Christian Democratic party, who ran a left-wing campaign with much the same theme as Allende's, and the right-wing former president Jorge Alessandri.

Despite pressure from the government of the United States, the Chilean Congress, keeping with tradition, conducted a runoff vote between the leading candidates, Allende and former president Jorge Alessandri.

After assurances of legality on Allende's part, the murder of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General René Schneider and Frei's refusal to form an alliance with Alessandri to oppose Allende – on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were a workers ' party and could not make common cause with the oligarchs – Allende was chosen by a vote of 153 to 35.

The action plans to prevent Allende from coming to power were known as Track I and Track II.

Allende adopted measures including price freezes, wage increases, and tax reforms, which had the effect of increasing consumer spending and redistributing income downward.

The Cuban packages scandal revealed arms smuggling from the Communist Cuba to Chile ; Allende – surrounded by KGB advisors – had turned Chile into a center for Soviet operations in Latin America.

Salvador Allende now had a personal KGB adviser.

By 1973, Chilean society had grown highly polarized, between strong opponents and equally strong supporters of Salvador Allende and his government.

The Tanquetazo was a failed military coup d ' état attempted against Allende in June 1973.

Less than a month later, on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military deposed Allende, who shot himself in the head to avoid capture as the Presidential Palace was surrounded and bombed.

As early as the Church Committee Report ( 1975 ), publicly available documents have indicated that the CIA attempted to prevent Allende from taking office after he was elected in 1970 ; the CIA itself released documents in 2000 acknowledging this and that Pinochet was one of their favored alternatives to take power.

A military coup overthrew Allende on September 11, 1973.

As the armed forces bombarded the presidential palace ( Palacio de La Moneda ), Allende committed suicide.

The four-man junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet abolished civil liberties, dissolved the national congress, banned union activities, prohibited strikes and collective bargaining, and erased the Allende administration's agrarian and economic reforms.