United States helps overthrow Chile government

In September 1973, President Salvador Allende was overthrown by the Chilean Military and endorsed by the United States. President Allende was involved with the Chilean Communist Party since the beginning, and so President Nixon informed that government in Chile wouldn't be accepted and he wasn't going to let him come into power. On the other hand, the Soviet Union supported Allende's government economically, politically and militarily. The Supreme Court denounced the Allende government's disruption of the legality of the nation in its failure to uphold judicial decisions.



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