Chile button. The text on the button reads:”We will win. Popular Unity”.
Popular Unity was a left-wing political alliance in Chile that stood behind the successful candidacy of Salvador Allende for the 1970 Chilean presidential election. Popular Unity originally comprised most of the Chilean Left: the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Radical Party, the Social Democrat Party, the Independent Popular Action and MAPU. UP’s leader, Salvador Allende, was a Marxist who co-founded Chile’s Socialist Party. Armed right-wing elements plotted to destabilize the government with support from the Nixon administration. Finally, anti-socialist elements in the military, with support from US intelligence agencies, orchestrated a successful coup d’état on 11 September 1973. The leader of the coup, Augusto Pinochet, seized power and assassinated the leaders of the Popular Unity.