Allende shot himself as Pinochet troops stormed the palace, confirms Chilean court

Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 01:51 UTC

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A Chilean court has confirmed that President Salvador Allende killed himself in 1973 as troops attacked the presidential palace to oust him. Official reports, accepted by his family, concluded that his death was suicide but his body was exhumed in 2011 to settle lingering doubts. Read full article

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Sergio Vega
What a coward scrap....!!! just an humanoid or just less than a humanbeing....
Unable to face his rsponsabilities into the courts......the best example of what his Gvt. was.....just scrap...!!!
Sep 13th, 2012 - 02:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marcos Alejandro
Who is Allence MercoP.?

Viva Allende!
Sep 13th, 2012 - 03:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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The Chilean perspective
Not only was he incompetent, naive and totally useless, but he turned out to be a coward as well. Instead of being red he really was yellow underneath.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 07:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Englander
2 “Viva Allende!”

Bit late. About 39 years.

3 “he turned out to be a coward ”

Nah, he wasn't a coward. Took guts to pull that trigger and don't let anybody tell you different.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Condorito
For so long the communists maintained that he was murdered and that the suicide was invented. Now they concede.
The passing of time does not favour communist myths.

Marcos
You should try to get hold of Allende’s doctoral thesis. It is particularly revealing, his declared hatred of Jews, Arabs and gypsies should come as no surprise, but his proposals to sterilise the mentally ill and his classification of “political revolutionaries” as mentally ill, is perhaps more surprising.

Luckily for us, divine intervention determined that this particular political revolutionary was permanently neutered.
¡Viva Chile!
Sep 13th, 2012 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
Even if he killed himself, which I don't concede by the way, he was killed by Pinochet because without the coup he wouldn't have died that day. The idea he'd have got a fair trial is laughable

#5 Interesting, he must have got more left wing as he got older! Tell me do you prefer the young or old version???
Sep 15th, 2012 - 01:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Condorito
BK
Even if he didn’t kill himself, he still killed himself, without his destruction of the country the coup would not have been necessary.
I prefer the deceased version.
You are correct that he got more left wing in the sense that his dislike of freedom increased.
Sep 20th, 2012 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
How did his “dislike of freedom” increase with the abandonment of any youthful prejudices about Jews, Arabs, gypsies, the mentally ill and revolutionaries?
Sep 20th, 2012 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Condorito
He went from dislike of minority groups to dislike of everyone's freedoms. So rather than just curtail the freedoms of a few he would curtail the freedom of many.
Sep 21st, 2012 - 02:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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