Salvador Allende, Chile's – first democratically elected president - HIS TOMB AND HIS POLITICAL LIFE

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Salvador Allende was Chile’s first democratically elected socialist president, elected in 1970 during the Cold War. At the time Chile was made up of 70%!p(MISSING)oor people and 30%!r(MISSING)ich people. Allende carried out three major reforms for the poor:
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He nationalised copper production instead of leaving it in the hands of private companies and made private companies pay taxes on it. This was very poopular among the poor as 1/3 of Chilean wealth at the time came from copper.<li style="color:� font-family: 'Batang',serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
He reformed the health and education system with the aim of making it accessible to all people. Unfortunately he died before he could finish the reform and for this reason Chile has a poor education aystem, where you need to be from a wealthy family to get an education.<li style="color:� font-family: 'Batang',serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
The land reform. The small number of rich families who owned most of the land were made to sell their land off to the government so it could be shared more equally.

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