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Salvador Allende Gossens

Salvador Allende Gossens
Salvador Allende Gossens, the first Socialist president of Chile, addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. Allende’s regime, weak at the outset because of factionalism among his supporters, was eventually toppled by a military coup.
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