What was one change brought about in Chile by Salvador Allende?

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Homer

please ignore leftist propaganda. Ask a Chilean citizen about the CIA installing Pinochet and they will laugh you out of the country.

Allende shreded the Chilean constitution. Presidents in Chile were prohibited from running for second terms. In the presidential elections of 1970, Allende ran again. The Communist party had its candidate, Pablo Neruda. - a poet who was to win the Nobel Prize in literature the following year. Neruda withdrew at the last minute and supported Allende. Jorge Alessandri, who had been president from 1958 to 1964 (and was the son of another former president, Arturo Alessandri), ran for some Christian Democrats, and Radomiro Tomic ran for left leaning Christian Democrats. Again money to influence the elections came from U.S. agents, but U.S. influence was not as great as some have imagined it to be. It did not have enough influence to prevent an Allende victory.
Allende nationalized the copper industry, without compensating its owners. He nationalized other foreign owned businesses and some Chilean-owned businesses considered monopolies. State run businesses came to control 60 percent of Chile's Gross National Product. Workers in business that remained privately owned clamored for nationalization of their industry, hoping for the better pay and working conditions they believed were accruing to public-sector employees. Some industrial workers in privately owned companies took over their factories.
Worker discipline and productivity in other industries fell. Government owned industries were suffering from political appointments rather than appointments based on expertise. Bad weather and social turmoil was diminishing food production. Allende was pursuing more agrarian reform, and impatient peasants, encouraged by the call for equality and for revolutionary change, were seizing land illegally.
Allende's attempt to control inflation by freezing prices did not work. More money chasing few goods contributed to more inflation, as did the continuing demand from labor for higher wages. The money supply had doubled. The continual rise in prices was hurting people. The Nixon administration had stopped aid to Chile, and investment in Chile from abroad had dried - as was to be expected given the nationalizations and hostilities toward foreign capital within Chile. To the Left it seemed that Allende's Chile was under attack from hostile forces. There had also been withdrawals from bank deposits and an exodus of capital from Chile.
Hostility toward Allende increased among those who did not believe in social revolution. They hardly needed influence from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, but the CIA was there, sponsoring anti-Allende propaganda in Chile's media and supporting anti-Allende politicians.
People opposed to Allende marched in the streets. Denunciations abounded. A threat to massacre communists was declared. Incidents of violence by the Right and by the Left increased. Armed anti-Leftists vigilante defense groups appeared in middleclass suburbs. Landowners were defending themselves violently against attempted seizures of their land. The toleration needed for democracy to work was disappearing.
Chile's independent truckers did not care for threats to create socialist trucking. On July 26, 1973, the truckers began another of their strikes, crippling commerce. Allende was not moving to appease centrists, and, in August, Congress moved against him, declaring that the Allende's government was in fundamental violation of Chile's constitution. Chile's judiciary joined in and asked the military to step in and put an end to infringements on the nation's constitution and laws. The military responded, believing that they were saving Chile. The military stormed the presidential palace, and Allende died with his machine gun in his hands.
Pinochet was the savior of the nation

Adyari

C. Nationalization of large industries.

Under Allende's presidency, he began the nationalization of large-scale industries, most notably Banking, under the "La vÃa chilena al socialismo" ("The Chilean Path to Socialism) which included many social programs relating to better health care, education and other things for Chile. He did many great things for Chile, but, as always, the U.S. did not like that so they spread propaganda against him calling him a communist and what not. The CIA spent millions doing this to instal a U.S.-backed dictator that Chile will never forget, Augusto Pinochet.

President Pinochet, or Dictator Pinochet better said, was on trial for human rights violations both in Chile and abroad, including mass-murder, torture, kidnapping, illegal detention, and censorship of the press; he was also a money-embezzler among other things. The U.S. helped install him into presidency after spreading lies about Allende. I guess thats the best the U.S. wants for Latin America, criminals like Pinochet in Chile, Somoza in Nicaragua, Noriega in Panama Fujimori in Peru and so many more all over the world.

Tina M

c and a lot of hardship for the poor people

Enrique

State runs all industry

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