The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile keyword-betsy-devos Mike Marqusee

Mike Marqusee

spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party’s prison system

with the benefit of hindsight

relations that exceed the strictures of imperial power

The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile keyword-betsy-devos Mike MarquseeIn this revealing history of Allendes Chile, Jonathan Haslam uncovers the actual involvement of Cuba, the Soviet Union, and the CIA in that countrys struggle for political and economic stability. The story begins by tracing the trajectory of the communist and socialist parties from the pre war period through to the dramatic election of Salvador Allende as president of Chile in 1970, in a country long accustomed to political democracy but divided by