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The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile: A Case of Assisted Suicide
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by Jonathan Haslam
Sales Rank: 697859
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 255 pages
Published by: Verso September 5, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1844670309
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1844670307
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Book Description
This new history of the rise and fall of Allende's regime uncovers shocking details of US, Cuban, and Soviet involvement.
In this revealing history of Allende's Chile, Jonathan Haslam uncovers the actual involvement of Cuba, the Soviet Union, and the CIA in that country's struggle for political and economic stability. The story begins by tracing the trajectory of the communist and socialist parties from the pre-war period through to the dramatic election of Salvador Allende as president of Chile in 1970, in a country long accustomed to political democracy but divided by great inequality of income. It weaves in an account of a new force linked to Castro's Cuba, and elucidates the longstanding politicization of the Chilean armed forces through mere talk of action in the early 1960s to the attempted coup d'état of 1969 and the coup of 1973. It highlights the personal profile of Allende and his close ties to Cuba, and shows Soviet indifference to the fate of the régime during a period of emerging détente with the United States, which meant enduring isolation for this precarious socialist experiment.
In this tragic tale of assisted suicide, The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile underlines the chronic mismanagement of the economy in the drive to socialism on the back of a minority franchise. It deepens our understanding of close US involvement in attempts to block the formation of the Unidad Popular government, and how it then attempted to bring down the régime by massive subsidies to nationwide strikes, engineering a coup led by the navy behind the back even of CIA stations in Santiago.
About The Author
Jonathan Haslam is Professor of the History of International Relations at the Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University, and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is the author of many works, including No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli and The Vices of Integrity: E.H. Carr, 1892-1982. He is currently writing a history of the Cold War.
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