Salvador Allende

The person on the picture is Salvador Allende, he was a doctor and a politician, and a socialist activist. He was born on June 26th,1908 on Santiago, Chile. He studied at the "Universidad de Chile".

In 1970, Salvador became the President of the Republic of Chile by popular vote. He pretended to establish a socialist state by the institutional way. His government was very obstructed, the Chilean right didn't want that the communism stayed on Chile and the international forces again the Russian communism planned to bring down the wishes of Salvador Allende. This period of the Chilean history is very dark, the most damaged was the people, there were scarcity and a lot of problems with the implementation of public politics guided to socialism. Finally on September 11th of 1973 the public forces attacked the actual order with an offensive using violence, tanks, weapons, bombs, airplanes, and a detailed strategy to kill to Salvador Allende and eliminate the communism "threat", that was a horrible day, the president and a lot of activist was murdered and that was the beginning of 27 year of dictatorship, torture and violations to the human rights. 

I admire Salvador Allende for a lot of reasons, at first, because his love to people, he believed on the Chileans, he trusted that with his victory the proletariat finally was to live in justice. I admire him for his wishes and his solidarity with people. Maybe I'm not a socialist, but his dedication and sacrifice to make of Chile a better place to live makes me admire him. Is hard to find a person who be able to fight until the last consequences to get his objective, and that he wanted to get that by the institutional way, something so hard to get, that implicate a lot of work, is remarkable. He gave his live for the objective.