The Socialist Party of Chile is a centre-left political party founded in 1933. Its historic leader was President of Chile Salvador Allende, who was deposed in a coup d'état by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973. The military junta immediately banned socialist, Marxist and other leftist political parties. Members of the Socialist party and other leftists were subject to violent suppression, including torture and murder, under the Pinochet dictatorship, and many went into exile. Twenty-seven years after the 1973 coup, Ricardo Lagos Escobar won the Presidency as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1999–2000 Chilean presidential election. Socialist Michelle Bachelet won the 2005–06 Chilean presidential election. She was the first female president of Chile and was succeeded by Sebastián Piñera in 2010. In the 2013 Chilean general election, she was again elected president, leaving office in 2018.
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government. Allende, who has been described as the first Marxist to be democratically elected president in a Latin American liberal democracy, faced significant social unrest, political tension with the opposition-controlled National Congress of Chile. On 11 September 1973, a group of military officers, led by General Augusto Pinochet, seized power in a coup, ending civilian rule.
The Revolutionary Left Movement is a Chilean far-left Marxist-Leninist communist party and former urban guerrilla organization founded on 12 October 1965. At its height in 1973, the MIR numbered about 10,000 members and associates. The group emerged from various student organizations, mainly from University of Concepción, that had originally been active in the youth organization of the Socialist Party. They established a base of support among the trade unions and shantytowns of Concepción, Santiago, and other cities. Andrés Pascal Allende, a nephew of Salvador Allende, president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, was one of its early leaders. Miguel Enríquez was the General Secretary of the party from 1967 until his assassination in 1974 by the DINA.
Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos is the national stadium of Chile, and is located in the Ñuñoa district of Santiago. The stadium, located into the Estadio Nacional Sports Park, is the largest in Chile with an official capacity of 46,190. It is part of a 62 hectare sporting complex which also features tennis courts, an aquatics center, a modern gymnasium, a velodrome, a BMX circuit, and an assistant ground/warmup athletics track.
The Allende family is a Chilean family of Spanish descent. They became well known during the 19th century and are based in Santiago. They have played a very significant role in Chilean politics.
Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann is a Chilean Army general and a former member Foreign Affairs Department of the DINA, as an analyst and in the agency's socio-economic intelligence unit, called "Purén Brigade".
Sebastián Andrés Beccacece is an Argentine professional football manager. He is the current head coach of the Ecuador national team.
General elections were held in Chile on 19 November 2017 to elect the president, all 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies, 23 of the 43 members of the Senate and 278 members of regional boards. All elected members would serve a four-year term, aside from the senators would serve for eight years.
The following lists events that happened during 1970 in Chile.
The Secretariat of the Interior of Argentina is a secretariat of the national executive power that manages issues pertaining to domestic politics such as immigration and co-ordination between the federal government and the governments of the provinces of Argentina.
Gabriel Boric Font is a Chilean politician who has been president of Chile since 11 March 2022. He previously served two four-year terms as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies.
Alberto Baltra Cortés was a Chilean politician and economist, a member of the Radical Party.
Paula Narváez Ojeda is a Chilean politician and psychologist who is the Chile ambassador to the United Nations under President Gabriel Boric. She was elected as the seventy-ninth President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council on 27 July 2023.
Maya Alejandra Fernández Allende is a Chilean biologist, veterinarian and politician, a member of the Socialist Party of Chile (PS) who has been serving as Minister of National Defense of Chile since 11 March 2022. Since March 2018, she has served as a deputy of the Republic, representing the 10th district, Metropolitan Region. In her first legislative year, she presided over the Chamber of Deputies between March 2018 and March 2019.
Lidia Magdalena Amarales Osorio is a Chilean politician, surgeon, and Master in Public Health. She is a former member of the Party for Democracy (PPD) and the Communist Party of Chile (PC). She served as Undersecretary of Public Health of her country during the first government of Michelle Bachelet between 2006 and 2008, and as National Director of the National Service for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug and Alcohol Consumption of Chile (SENDA) between 2014 and 2015..
The following is a list of events in the year 2023 in Chile.
Ricardo Óscar Cifuentes Lillo is a Chilean professor and politician. He was undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development of Chile between 2014 and 2018. He served as president of the Chamber of Deputies from 24 July 2023 to 15 April 2024.
Nicolás Cataldo Astorga is a Chilean politician who has been serving as Minister of Education since 16 August 2023. Previously, he served as the Undersecretary of Regional Development and Education between 2022 and 2023.
Francisca Perales Flores is a Chilean politician.
Víctor Jeame Barrueto is a Chilean politician who has served as deputy and undersecretary.
