[Tailgunner Joe]

From the horse's mouth.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Bon mots]

The cure.

[inquest]

In a packed public meeting during a visit to the island who years after taking up the presidency, Allende referred to Fidel’s visit to Chile by Fidel in December 1971, affirming: “Fidel’s presence and the masterly teachings of his speeches fortified the revolutionary faith of the Chilean people and the revolutionary faith of the Latin American people.”

But, but, wasn't he just a "social reformer"?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Myth of Allende obscures reality*** On Sept. 13, 1970, The Herald's long-time Latin American editor, Don Bohning, rated Salvador Allende's electoral victory in Chile, nine days earlier, as the ''single most significant event in Latin America since Fidel Castro seized power more than a decade ago.'' The then-U.S. Ambassador, Edward M. Korry went further. In a confidential report to President Richard Nixon, he wrote: ``It will have the most profound effect on Latin America and beyond; we have suffered a grievous defeat.''

And, he added: ``It is a sad fact that Chile has taken the path to communism with only little more than a third of the nation approving this choice, but it is an immutable fact.''

Three years later, on Sept. 11, 1973, Allende was overthrown in a remarkably surgical military coup. Despite elaborate plans to train, arm and equip a clandestine militia, and to ring Santiago itself with fortified factories, the fighting on the llth took fewer than 200 lives on both sides.

In the aftermath, another journalist -- the talented British writer, David Holden -- wrote ``Salvador Allende died a lucky man. In life, he was a failure. Both his policies and his country were shattered long before the end. But in death, he achieved success beyond his dreams. Instantly canonized as the Western world's newest left-wing martyr, he became overnight the most potent cult figure since his old friend, Che Guevara.''***