#JLF 2014: Story of a Death Foretold
Oscar Guardiola- Rivera introduced by Jack Turner On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America's first democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d'état. Why and how it happened is the story Oscar Guardiola-Rivera will tell -- a radical re-evaluation of an incident which, even at the height of Cold War paranoia, shocked the world and continues to resonate today.
Oscar Guardiola- Rivera introduced by Jack Turner On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America's first democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d'état. Why and how it happened is the story Oscar Guardiola-Rivera will tell -- a radical re-evaluation of an incident which, even at the height of Cold War paranoia, shocked the world and continues to resonate today.