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{{Spanish name 2|first=Allende|second=Gossens}}
{{Infobox officeholder| name=Salvador Allende
|nationality=[[List of Chileans|Chilean]]
|image=Salvador Allende 2.jpg
|order=29th [[President of Chile]]
|term_start=4 November 1970
|term_end=11 September 1973
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In mid-1973 the USSR had approved the delivery of weapons (artillery, tanks) to the Chilean Army. However, when news of an attempt from the Army to depose Allende through a coup d'état reached Soviet officials, the shipment was redirected to another country.<ref name="Leonov"/>

==Crisis==
{{See also|Tanquetazo|Chile under Allende}}

On 
29 June 29, 1973, Colonel [[Roberto Souper]] surrounded the presidential palace, [[La Moneda Palace|La Moneda]] presidential palace, with his tank regiment andbut failed to depose the Allende Ggovernment.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20041013002715/http://literature.rebelyouth.ca/educhile_1970s/tanquetazo.html Second coup attempt: ''El Tanquetazo'' (the tank attack)], originally on RebelYouth.ca. Unsigned, but with citations. Archived on [[Internet Archive]] 13 October 2004.</ref> That failed ''coup d’état'' – known as the ''[[Tanquetazo]]'' ("tank putsch") – organised by the nationalist ''[[Patria y Libertad]]'' paramilitary group, was followed by a general strike at the end of July that included the copper miners of El Teniente.

In August, 1973, a [[constitutional crisis]] occurred, and the [[Supreme Court of Chile|Supreme Court]] publicly complained about the inability of Allende Ggovernment's inability to enforce the law of the land, and, on 22.  On August 22nd, the Chamber of Deputies (with the Christian Democrats uniteding with the National Party) accused Allende`s Gthe government of unconstitutional acts by hithrough Allende's refusal to promulgate constitutional amendments, already approved by the cChamber of deputies that, which would have prevented his government from continuing his massive stat[[nationalization]] plan<ref>[http://www.geomundos.com/chile/historia/resumen-de-la-historia_doc_16622.html Historia de Chile. Accessed online 15 May 2009.]</ref> and called upon the military to enforce constitutional order.<ref name="Se desata la crisis">{{es icon}} [http://www.latercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,38035857_178048856_151840547,00.html Se desata la crisis], part of series "Icarito > Enciclopedia Virtual > Historia > Historia de Chile > Del gobierno militar a la democracia" on LaTercera.cl. Accessed 22 September 2006.</ref>

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For months, the Allende Government had feared calling upon the [[Carabineros de Chile|''Carabineros'']] ("Carabineers)", the national police force), suspecting them of disloyalty to his government.   On 9 August 9th, President Allende appointed Gen.eral [[Carlos Prats]] as [[Ministry of National Defense (Chile)|Minister of Defence]]. On 24 August 24, 1973, General Prats was forced to resign both as defense minister and as the [[Chilean Army|Army Ccommander-in-chief of the army]], embarrassed by both the [[Alejandrina Cox incident]] and a public protest in front of his house by the wives of his generals.   Gen.eral [[Augusto Pinochet]] replaced him as Army commander-in-chief the same day.<ref name="Se desata la crisis"/>

=== Supreme Court's resolution ===
On 26 May 26, 1973, the [[Supreme Court of Chile|Chile’s Supreme Court]] unanimously denounced the Allende government's disruption of the legality of the nation in its failure to uphold judicial decisions, because of its continual refusal to permit police execution of judicial resolutdecisions contradicting the Government'sry to the Allende's own measures.

===Chamber of Deputies' resolution===
On 22 August 22, 1973, the Christian Democrats and the National Party members of the Chamber of Deputies joined together to voted 81 to 47, in favour of a resolution that asked the authorities<ref>"The President of the Republic, Ministers of State, and members of the Armed and Police Forces".</ref> to ''"put an immediate end''" to ''"breach[es of] the Constitution . . . with the goal of redirecting government activity toward the path of Llaw and ensuring the Constitutional order of our Nation, and the essential underpinnings of democratic co-existence among Chileans."

The resolution declared that the Allende G's government sought ''. . . "to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the State . . . [with] the goal of establishing ileans''.⏎
. . . a totalitarian system''," and claiming ied that the government had made ''"violations of the Constitution . . . a permanent system of conduct''." Essentially, most of the accusations were about disregard by the Socialist Ggovernment disregardingof the separation of powers, and arrogating legislative and judicial prerogatives to the executive branch of government.

Specifically, the Socialist Ggovernment of President Allende was accused of:
* [[Ruling by decree]], thwarting the normal legislative system
* Refusing to enforce judicial decisions against its partisans; not carrying out sentences and judicial resolutions that contravened its objectives
* Ignoring the decrees of the independent General Comptroller's Office
* Sundry media offenses; usurping control of the National Television Network and applying ... economic pressure against those media organizations that are not unconditional supporters of the government...
* Allowing its sSocialist supporters to assemble armed,with arms, and preventing the same by its right  -wing opponents
* Supporting more than 1,500 illegal ‘"takings’" of farms...
* Illegal repression of the El Teniente miners’ strike
* Illegally limiting emigration

Finally, the resolution condemned the creation and development of government-protected [socialist] armed groups, which . . . are headed towards a confrontation with the armed forces. President Allende's efforts to re-organize the military and the police forces were characterized as ''notorious attempts to use the armed and police forces for partisan ends, destroy their institutional hierarchy, and politic(contracted; show full)[[sr:Салвадор Аљенде]]
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