Allende Gossens

[ ah-yen-de gaw-sens ]

noun

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

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

There were also allegations that ITT had tried unsuccessfully in 1970 to block the election of Salvador Allende Gossens as president of Chile.

From New York Times

Since ousting the elected, but floundering, government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, Pinochet has led a military junta that routinely uses terror to enforce its will.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then they began to chant "Pin-o-chet, go away!," conscious that they were on the site where scores of Chileans were killed and hundreds tortured after the 1973 coup in which General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens.

From Time Magazine Archive