A man votes on the day of the constitutional plebiscite in the National State in Santiago de Chile.Alberto Valdés / EFE
Few countries concentrate in their history so many symbols of an era, the Cold War, which was tragic and painful for Latin America.
The election of Salvador Allende on September 4, 1970, in his fourth attempt to assume the presidency of the country, seemed to show the region that, even in the climate of extreme polarization in the hemisphere, it was still possible to seek a path of reform. radical, within a democratic framework.
The Chilean Way to Socialism symbolized an alternative to the model of the Cuban Revolution that, instead, had overcome the limits that the Cold War had ...
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