Adelante con Allende

About the Book

    In 1970, Chile's citizens made Salvador Allende the first freely elected Marxist president in the americas. Three years later, he was overthrown in a violent military coup led by Augusto Pinochet with the no-so-secret complicity of the U.S. Government and powerful corporate interests. Chilean democrats were brutally suppressed and all Chileans were stripped of their constitutional rights.
    "The dynamics which enabled Allende to win at the polls, including the expectations raised but only partially fulfilled by President Eduardo Frei and Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, are examined form multiple perspectives. Allende's policies, the reason for the coup, the repression which followed, and the events leading to the restoration of democracy are critically scrutinized.
    "Allende's legacy as a democratic politician with a socialist agenda is reviewed from the vantage point of the struggle by Chileans to overcome a military tyranny nurtured for 16 years by domestic and foreign elites in the name of "liberty and freedom."
    It is a lesson which all democrats of the Americas ignore at our own peril."

About the Author

    Attorney Richard Avila is a graduate of Occidental college and U.C.L.A.. He is a serious student of Latin American History and Politics and a pracitioner of plitical organizing, and a promoter of strategies to empower all underdogs.