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Salvador Ayende's popular Unity victory in 1970 held out the promise of a democratic path

to socialism through the ballot box. But for US President Richard Nixon and his National

Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, proving that socialism and democracy were compatible

was intolerable. And socialism of any sorts was also, of course, intolerable to Chile's elites.

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