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IJE Advance Access originally published online on April 28, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(4):737-739; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh175
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Salvador Allende: his role in Chilean politics

Richard Muir1 and Alan Angell2

1 Nuffield College, Oxford, UK
2 St Antony's College, Oxford, UK

Correspondence: Dr A Angell, Latin American Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford, OX2 6JF, UK. E-mail: alan.angell@latin-american-centre.oxford.ac.uk

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   From medicine to politics
 
Salvador Allende Gossens was born in 1908 and died in the coup against his government on 11 September 1973. He was four times candidate for the Presidency—unsuccessfully in 1952, 1958, 1964, and finally successfully in 1970. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1932 but from his student days he was also active in politics, helping to found ChileÕs Socialist Party in the same year as his graduation. He was elected to Congress as a Deputy in 1937, but his rise to political prominence came with his appointment as Minister of Health in the administration of the Radical President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, who formed a Popular Front government in 1938.

Chile was one of only three countries to form a Popular Front government in those turbulent times—the others were France and Spain. This gives some indication of the importance of left-wing radical politics in a country about as far remote . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   From the Popular Front to the Presidency
 

   Allende as President
 

   Allende's Legacy
 

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