The murder of Allende and the end of the Chilean way to socialism

by Robinson Rojas Sandford, Andrée Conrad (Translator)

English, Spanish (translation)

274 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won't waste people's time by attempting to show my literacy skills with a self indulgent review. I'll save those for the others we have to suffer. This is compulsory reading for anybody trying to get a handle on America's despicably corrupt foreign policy and the terrifying control major corporations hold over global decisions.

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Our granddaughter is going to Chile as a college student for a semester and I wanted to learn something about Chile and its politics/culture and our library only had two books--this was one of them.
In my upbringing I was an AFS student and proud of being a North American. I have voted in every election for the person who is least likely to bring our sons, daughters and granddaughter into any war.
As I read this book to its end, I was so ashamed that various American businesses, the CIA, the Pentagon, the Defense Department, former President Richard Nixon and his staff would over a period of years, before 1973, intentionally design a lengthy plan to murder Salvador Allende, a democratically elected President of Chile; then, have Chilean Army, Navy and Air force soldiers brutally wound and murder thousands of Chilean citizens all in the name of getting materials from their lands and getting rid of a belief system that didn't match the USA's.
I appreciate the time, effort and resources Mr. Robinson Rojas Sanford used to back up his claims of this horrible murder.

[Shardwell Stradtlater · Rating 5 out of 5]

On the fiftieth anniversary of 9/11/73, the media announced without any qualification that "Allende committed suicide." We learn in the first chapter of this book that that is a lie. The "suicide" was staged. After the first chapter, devoted to the details of those few hours at La Moneda on that day, the author - with a journalist's knack for description and an economist's grasp of the vital forces in play - traces the history of the planning of the coup in detail. It becomes evident that the "suicide" had been planned for years and that the Pentagon, the CIA, and the moneyed interests they serve were in it up to their eyeballs.
Seeing the "suicide" of Allende now being presented as fact, along with the "failure" of his government's policies - a "failure" the US and the Chilean oligarchs sweated blood to midwife - only demonstrates that the same forces who drowned Chile's dreams of a fair and virtuous society in blood are still in control of the narrative. They are also still killing hope and dreams everywhere on the planet. That must be known, and this book must be read.