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There is also abundant evidence to debunk the fluke election theory. Unidad Popular, the six-party coalition which backed Allende in 1970, won 51 per cent of the votes in the April 1971 municipal elections. Traditionally, ruling parties lose votes in the mid-term congressional elections; in March 1972, Unidad Popular raised its national vote count to 43 per cent of the total electorate. The right, which expected to take 60 per cent of the vote in 1972 began to fear that UP would win with 75 per cent...
...Unidad Popular party controlled prices and raised the wages of the working class, it intended to maintain the pre-Allende level of middle-class consumption. The economic blockade and shortage of dollars, however, forestalled the necessary increase in imports. Workers had the money to compete with the upper classes for goods which were limited in supply. The Central Bank set differential exchange rates which gave priority to food imports over consumer goods. As workers found it easier to purchase essential products and the middle classes felt their own consumption power threatened, the workers and bourgeoisie became increasingly polarized. The combined...
Allende soon found himself isolated from all potential supporters. A radio station operated by his Socialist Party went silent after making a final appeal to enlisted men to disobey the orders of their officers. Another station operated by Allende's Communist partners* in the Chilean Unidad Popular (Popular Unity) coalition went dead. Soon the only station left on the air in Santiago was one that identified itself as "the military government radio." Its first order: "The President of the republic must proceed immediately to hand over his high office...
...manifesto was also a slap at Argentina, for Morínigo and the soldier politicians around him were a smudged carbon copy of Argentina's military Government. Unidad National, Argentine underground newspaper, claimed that Vice President Juan Domingo Perón had made a secret agreement with Paraguay's militarists, looking toward a "total customs union" with Argentina. The manifesto was a hint that the Paraguayan people might have something to say about that. The move would reduce Paraguay to an Argentine dependency, tend to bolster her unpopular military government...
...real power in Argentina was a group of Army officers called the GOU.The initials stood for "Gobierno, Orden, Unidad" (Government, Order, Unity). But the GOU group was soon nicknamed "The Colonels." And it soon became clear that the Colonel of the Colonels was Juan Domingo Perón. He was Vice President, War Minister and Secretary of Labor and Welfare. If Americans had never heard of him, neither had many Argentines...