EPISODE · Jan 10, 2015 · 59 MIN
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
from 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival
Salvador Allende’s Last Stand Why was Latin America’s first democratically-elected Marxist president deposed in a violent coup in 1973? Why had business leaders and military officers in Chile been collaborating with the US Government and the CIA for months to end his regime? Colombian-born writer Oscar Guardiola-Rivera’s riveting Story of a Death Foretold lays bare the Cold War paranoia and rabid anti-communism that led to Allende’s downfall. In association with the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies
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Salvador Allende’s Last Stand Why was Latin America’s first democratically-elected Marxist president deposed in a violent coup in 1973? Why had business leaders and military officers in Chile been collaborating with the US Government and the CIA for months to end his regime? Colombian-born writer Oscar Guardiola-Rivera’s riveting Story of a Death Foretold lays bare the Cold War paranoia and rabid anti-communism that led to Allende’s downfall. In association with the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies
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