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6 unusual facts about Allende


Allende, Nuevo León

The 'Parroquia de San Pedro Apóstol' (Parish of St. Peter Apostle), which is a modern building on a smaller scale replica of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Museum of Anthropology, History and Culture House in the Old Temple, the shrine of Our Lady of Light at Rancho El Cerro, the Hacienda del provisor, the collection gallery of Bernardo Flores Salazar and the municipal palace.

Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations

In the early 1970s, large groups of Dutch people declared themselves in solidarity with the reform politics of the Chilean President Allende.

Cor Dillen

Moreover whilst stationed in Chile between the years of 1971 and 1974, he prevented the nationalisation of the company during the Allende-Marxist Government, and steered the Chilean operations through tumultuous times including the Pinochet-Allende coup.

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

A former defense researcher and strategist and member of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and a member of Oxford's All Souls College, he was a senior grade public affairs officer for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in Santiago, Chile during the Allende government.

María de los Ángeles Errisúriz

María de los Ángeles Errisúriz Alarcón (born in Allende, Coahuila, México; January 18, 1966) is a Mexican writer, teacher and politician.

Michel Pablo

At the beginning of the 1970s, he was politically active in Chile, under Allende's government.


Alejandro Gómez Monteverde

Monteverde married American actress Ali Landry on April 8, 2006 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Chilean presidential election, 1970

Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende.

Eleanor Coen

With a close friend, artist Pablo O'Higgins, Max and Eleanor went to San Miguel de Allende where Max set up a litho studio and taught lithography at the School of Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Eugene Mackaben

Soon afterwards, he went to Mexico where he studied at the Insituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende 1948-49 and, from 1949–1950, at the Insituto Nacional de Belas Artes, Mexico City, where he studied under David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Ruiz.

Gil Gutierrez

Gutiérrez talent was then discovered by Doc Severinsen who heard him play in a restaurant in San Miguel de Allende.

Hilda Woolnough

Emigrating to Canada in 1957, she settled in Hamilton, Ontario, but then left in 1965 to go to San Miguel de Allende Instituto in Mexico to study experimental etching, graduating in 1967 with a focus on graphics and a Master's of Fine Arts.

Jennifer Colón

Through people in Miss World Puerto Rico, she met Elan Allende, son of Fernando Allende.

Leonardo Henrichsen

Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Souper and the other participants in the failed coup attempt against President Allende (an event known in Chile as the Tanquetazo) were given refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador (whose dictatorship was hostile to Allende).

Lili Zoe Ermezei

Ermezei's photograph "Judith" was selected by the Renaissance Photograpy Prize 2012 judges Michael Hoppen, Brett Rogers, Monica Allende, Mary McCartney and Brigitte Lardinois from over 6,000 entries as one of the 100 Renaissance finalist photographs to be exhibited at Mall Galleries.

Luca Manca

He suffered a brain contusion in the accident, and was transferred by helicopter to Hospital del Cobre Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens in Calama, Chile, before being transferred to the neuro-surgical unit of Clínica de la Mutual de Seguridad in Santiago, Chile.

Margaret Webb Dreyer

She studied fine arts at Westmoreland College in San Antonio, at the University of Texas School of Architecture in Austin, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Metro Allende

In order to change platforms at Allende one has to exit the station and cross the street, thus making it necessary to pay the fare again, a feature only shared with Metro Tezozómoc in Line 6.

Pamela David

The religious ceremony was held in the parish of Villa Allende and the party in Unquillo, both towns in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.

Rafael Manriquez

It was the time of socialist president Salvador Allende, and performances by foreign artists from like-minded movements such as Cuba’s Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés were commonplace at musical events supported by the Allende regime.

Salvador Allende Monument, Montreal

The monument dedicated to the memory of Salvador Allende was installed in Parc Jean Drapeau, on Île Notre-Dame in Montreal on September 11, 2009, the 36th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile and Salvador Allende's death.

Time Loves a Hero

The album cover depicts the Cattolica di Stilo which is a church in Italy, but the background is the town of San Miguel de Allende Mexico and the statue in front of the Cattolica di Stilo is in San Miguel de Allende.

United Socialist Workers' Party

These militants formed the Starting Point group in Salvador Allende's Chile, only to find themselves dispersed in 1973 when Allende's government was overthrown.

United States intervention in Chile

Peter Winn has argued that the role of the CIA was crucial to the consolidation of power that followed the coup; the CIA helped fabricate a conspiracy against the Allende government, which Pinochet was then portrayed as preventing.

Victoriano Huerta

The character of Agustin Allende in the 2010 video game Red Dead Redemption appears to be based on Huerta.

Z Plan

Plan Zeta, an planned coup by the leftist government of Salvador Allende alleged by the soldiers who committed the 1973 Chilean coup d'état


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