For those things and more, with date has good reasons to be one of the most important and relevant events in Chilean history, and my words may strike as odd (some might say that partisanship and naivety is to blame, I disagree with that), but many of my classmates, many friends, and myself feel the need to ask: Why is it such a known event across the world?
Because Allende was a democratically elected leader who was forcibly removed by a coup, funded and approved by the American government.
That made him a martyr among left leaning people worldwide (not only communists).
