Allende Gossens

American  

[ah-yen-de gaw-sens] / ɑˈyɛn dɛ ˈgɔ sɛns /

noun

1. Salvador, 1908–73, Chilean political leader: president 1970–73.

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Example Sentences

A niece and goddaughter of Salvador Allende Gossens, the Chilean president who was killed in a coup in 1973, she became a journalist at 17, went on to write four “awful” plays and resisted leaving Chile after the coup because she did not believe a dictatorship could take hold in her country.

From New York Times

Those reels became his signature work, the acclaimed documentary The Battle of Chile, a searing chronicle of the coup that felled Salvador Allende Gossens and culminated in Augusto Pinochet’s fascist rule.

From New York Times

In the first presidential election since the bloody 1973 coup that ousted Marxist Salvador Allende Gossens and brought General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte to power, voters elected Patricio Aylwin, 71, a Christian Democrat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reading a story about alleged CIA action against foreign governments, she indicated that socialist Salvador Allende Gossens had ruled Chile "from 1963 to 1973."

From Time Magazine Archive

Allende, a former journalist, has even scored a success in her native Chile, despite the fact that the present government came to power after the 1973 assassination of her uncle, Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens.

From Time Magazine Archive