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BainsBane

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15. Not really sure he was a failure

Reply to DerekG (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 06:21 PM

Jan 2015

but his democratic, socialist experiment failed due to CIA intervention, and he was assassinated by the Chilean military in the process of the coup. Salvador Allende of Chile, president from 1970-73.

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