The Allende family

Author: (German) Günter Wessel / Guo Li
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This series introduces the world-famous political families, business families, and artistic families. These families held high status and power, leaving a significant impact on their times with their wealth, status, reputation, and aspirations. In 1973, during a coup in the United States, Salvador Allende, the President of Chile, was killed, and the progressive forces of Chile suffered an unprecedented purge—this became the shocking "Chilean 9/11." Since then, the Allende family scattered across the world, with his niece surviving the ordeal and escaping Chile to become a best-selling author in Europe and America. The Allende family is Latin America's "Neddy family," not known for wealth but for their exceptional political talent and great sacrifice. Allende was both a Marxist and a democrat, attempting to establish a socialist country in Chile based on a democratic, multi-party free model through non-violent means amid the confrontation between the capitalist and socialist blocs. However, U.S. interference ruined this great experiment. Today, as Eastern and Western value systems clash severely and world peace faces various threats, European and American intellectuals cherish Allende's profound significance. "Allendism" and Allende's tragic, legendary life have once again become hot topics.