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General Carlos Prats, who presents his resignation two days later. Prats recommends Augusto Pinochet as his successor, considering him a constitutionalist general. And on August 22 , the Chamber of Deputies adopts a resolution that accuses the government of not complying with the laws and violating the Constitution. He maintains that the government “intends to gain total power, with the purpose of subjecting people to strict economic and political control by the State, to achieve a totalitarian system that opposed the representative and democratic system established by the Constitution.” And he ends by calling for the government to restore the rule of law. For many, this statement was an explicit call for a coup d'état.
Given this state of affairs, on September 9 , the general secretary of the PS, Carlos Altamirano, called for confrontation, to oppose the coup offensive by all possible means, ruling out any possibility of dialogue. His incendiary Phone Number Database speech was received by the military as a provocation, when Allende was trying to lower the temperature of the crisis. On the eve of the coup, the president announced to his ministers and military leaders his decision to call a plebiscite to resolve the crisis. Too late, the coup was already underway. THE DEDICATION OF CHE Allende used to proudly show the dedication that Che Guevara made to him in his book The Guerrilla War , which the Cuban-Argentine revolutionary gave him in Havana, shortly after the triumph of the revolution: “To Salvador Allende , who for others media tries to achieve the same.
Affectionately, Che . ” The guerrilla did not have time to witness the arrival of the socialists to power in Chile, as he was assassinated in Bolivia three years earlier, in 1967. But his dedication would continue to resonate for decades in the analyzes that attempted to understand the experience of the Popular Unity in Chili. The American Marxist intellectual Paul Sweezy, co-founder of Monthly Review , wrote days after the 1973 coup: “The Chilean tragedy confirms (…) that there is no peaceful path to socialism.” His article, titled “ Chile: The Question of Power ,” was headed with this quote from Saint Just, who in 1794 wrote: “He who carries out a revolution only half-heartedly is digging his own grave.”
Given this state of affairs, on September 9 , the general secretary of the PS, Carlos Altamirano, called for confrontation, to oppose the coup offensive by all possible means, ruling out any possibility of dialogue. His incendiary Phone Number Database speech was received by the military as a provocation, when Allende was trying to lower the temperature of the crisis. On the eve of the coup, the president announced to his ministers and military leaders his decision to call a plebiscite to resolve the crisis. Too late, the coup was already underway. THE DEDICATION OF CHE Allende used to proudly show the dedication that Che Guevara made to him in his book The Guerrilla War , which the Cuban-Argentine revolutionary gave him in Havana, shortly after the triumph of the revolution: “To Salvador Allende , who for others media tries to achieve the same.
Affectionately, Che . ” The guerrilla did not have time to witness the arrival of the socialists to power in Chile, as he was assassinated in Bolivia three years earlier, in 1967. But his dedication would continue to resonate for decades in the analyzes that attempted to understand the experience of the Popular Unity in Chili. The American Marxist intellectual Paul Sweezy, co-founder of Monthly Review , wrote days after the 1973 coup: “The Chilean tragedy confirms (…) that there is no peaceful path to socialism.” His article, titled “ Chile: The Question of Power ,” was headed with this quote from Saint Just, who in 1794 wrote: “He who carries out a revolution only half-heartedly is digging his own grave.”