Chile y Allende
August 2009
Trade Paperback · 300 Pages
$19.95 U.S. · $24.00 CAN
ISBN 9781921235429
Ocean Sur
Trade Paperback · 300 Pages
$19.95 U.S. · $24.00 CAN
ISBN 9781921235429
Ocean Sur
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Description
Chile y Allende is Fidel Castro’s analysis of the Chilean road to socialism in the 1970s. In 1971, Castro spent a month in Chile, addressing public meetings and discussing with President Salvador Allende Cuba’s experience in combating US-inspired counterrevolutionary forces. On departure, he handed Allende a rifle. The book includes Castro’s speech following the US-sponsored coup by Augusto Pinochet in 1973, in which Allende lost his life.
About the Authors
Fidel Castro led a guerrilla movement in Cuba that overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959. Since then, the Cuban president has been the nemesis of ten U.S. administrations. He stepped down in 2007 but has regularly expressed his views on world events and political personalities in his famous reflections. Jesús Arboleya is the author of The Cuban Counterrevolution (University of Ohio Press).