SALVADOR ALLENDE LIVES

On the  11 of September of 1973 a Coup d’Etat lead by General Augusto Pinochet, killed a very special man called, Salvador Allende. With his death and the repression that followed, it marked the end of a program of a country that pretended to be autonomous and the end of the hopes of a better future for all Chilean people.  

Salvador Allende was a socialist medical doctor who knew all about the problems faced by the poor and the workers. His dream was about the recovery of the natural  resources through nationalization and the use of their income to subsidize the profound  transformations that were necessary  in an under industrialized country to be able to eradicate poverty, lower the rate of infant mortality, improve education, etc.

During a period as Minister of Health he sponsored many good laws in benefit of women and children, created maternity leave legislation, etc.

During his almost three years of the popular Unity government 1970-1973 Allende nationalized the cooper mines, banks, finished the agrarian reform, and divided the economy in three areas: private, state and mixed ownership.

During his three years in government he instituted many measures to improve the life of the Chilean people. For example, instituted  I lt of milk a day for every child , holiday programs directed to low income families ,reforms in the industry, low housing and many others.

His ideas were part of a utopia that not even the big socialist block could maintain for very much longer. A new era was coming where countries were going to open their borders wider to imports and investments instead of protecting themselves and their national treasures.

The big multinationals could not tolerate a small country to oppose their plans of penetration into their economies. In alliance with the CIA and the US government dedicated enormous resources to conspire and destabilize the Chilean society.

Salvador Allende, the doctor from a narrow, long and socially conscientious country could not stop them but, by refusing to resign, by denouncing them at the United Nations by giving away his life before betraying the trust that the Chilean people had bestow on him  he demonstrated that not everybody has a price as many people would have us to believe.

September 11^th 1973, the military coup that destroyed democracy in Chile established a dictatorship that lasted for more than seventeen years. A terrorist regime

which was condemned by the international community, caused innumerable losses  to the Chilean society, loss of lives, set back of  political,  economical and  cultural progress and the suffering of thousands that are still suffering the consequences of it.

Despite the vain attempts to castigate Augusto Pinochet which he escaped by faking mental health disease, the wounds caused by his 17 years dictatorship are still open.

Nixon and Kissinger are still to answer for sponsoring the coup and the missing are still to be found.
The terrorist of yesterday  must be brought to justice and their crimes must not be forgotten.