victory of the Popular Front‚ and in 1970‚ with Salvador Allende ’s Popular Unity. The typically narrow margin could generally be attributed to the Chilean electorate ’s even division among these ideological orientations. The Pinochet dictatorship of 1973-1990‚ however‚ changed the nature of both the state and politics in Chile. By destroying the so-called "three-thirds" system (which Pinochet and the right blamed for authorizing Allende ’s election) and replacing it with a binomial system‚ Pinochet
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September 11‚ 1973 as they communicated over the willingness of Allende to negotiate‚ but the general will hear nothing of it. That same morning a Chilean Air Force plane flew over the skies of La Moneda‚ presidential palace of Santiago‚ Chile and bombed it. Inside Salvador Allende‚ the first Marxist-Socialist chief of state ever elected in a democratic country via free vote three years earlier . Rather than surrender to a military coup‚ Allende commits suicide . Many reasons exist as to why the Chilean
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Salvador Allende won the presidency under the platform that more would be given to the citizens of Chile‚ as opposed to foreign investors. After becoming a socialist state‚ many of the reforms under the newly elected president began to loosen the American stronghold of the Chilean economy. In 1973‚ the US supported and aided a military coup that removed the democratically elected president. This leads to the question: why were the internal affairs
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Introduction Movies can be described as a ”cultural mirror”‚ a valuable reflection of attitudes‚ philosophies‚ values and lifestyles because they enlarge and enrich the frontiers of our knowledge. Needless to say‚ we can enjoy a movie and also learn the culture‚ the language‚ the customs and the traditions of people from different countries. Obviously‚ a successful film inspires and emboldens us to strive for a better life and this will help us to improve our way of thinking
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naked eye and to all radars. A man named Carlos Miguel Allende witnessed the act while serving on a nearby merchant ship‚ SS Andrew Furuseth. In 1956 M.K. Jessup‚ the author of The Case for UFOs‚ received a handwritten letter by Allende telling him about the experiment. Allende described it as the military radiating the ship with electromagnetic beams. Jessup’s book‚ The Case For UFOs was soon published and included information about Allende and the experiment. Admiral N. Furuth chief ONR’s Special
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explained by the author‚ and these events are often accepted as perfectly normal and in fact usual by the characters of figures in the world of the artwork.” (4) Some popular books that have magical realism style are The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende ‚ Love in Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Magical realism in other words‚ is combination of magic and existent events written in a book.
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Cold War Influence in Latin America The United States and the Soviet Union competed against each other during the Cold War in the second half of the 20th Century like a chess game‚ with the world as their chessboard and countries as pawns in their game. For the Russians‚ a critical part of the chessboard was Cuba and Latin America. The Russians believed that if they could align themselves with countries in the western hemisphere‚ America’s “backyard”‚ it would help the Soviet Union counter the strong
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identification card‚ and an eyeglass case bearing the initials S.A.G. (Salvador Allende Gossens). All of these objects serve as material touch points‚ in almost Proustian fashion‚ for Guzmán’s homage to his political father: Allende. As the film progresses‚ however‚ we come to understand that what we assume will be a reflection on Allende’s life and legacy‚ turns out to be‚ first and foremost‚ a film about Guzmán: “Salvador Allende‚” he says toward the beginning of the film‚ “marked my life. I would not
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opposition groups during that time period and "sought to instigate a coup to prevent Allende from taking office. By 1973‚ Chilean society had grown highly polarized‚ between strong opponents and equally strong supporters of Salvador Allende and his government. Military actions and movements‚ separate from the civilian authority‚ began to manifest in the countryside. A failed military coup was attempted against Allende in June 1973. After the coup‚ Chileans witnessed a large-scale repression‚ which started
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life of a slave named Tété. Tété‚ the principle protagonist in the novel‚ is a mulatta who spends most of the novel enslaved by her main antagonist‚ a Frenchman named Toulouse Valmorain. Written from both a historical and a feminist standpoint‚ Allende paints a picture of the privilege of French and male colonists‚ and the burdens of Black people and women. The author weaves several feminist themes together in her story. Throughout the novel‚ not one female character is truly free. Specifically
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