The coup was lowkey the best and worst thing that happened to Allende. His policy of “revolution through reform” and the way he went about implementing it was genuinely nonsensical if you read about it (going for some half-baked ground between capitalism and socialism that just didn’t work and was a large part why the insane inflation happened + didn’t dismantle capitalist power structures which all but guaranteed the coup to happen eventually), but because of the coup that’s all swept under the rug and he’s a martyr.
The coup was lowkey the best and worst thing that happened to Allende. His policy of “revolution through reform” and the way he went about implementing it was genuinely nonsensical if you read about it (going for some half-baked ground between capitalism and socialism that just didn’t work and was a large part why the insane inflation happened + didn’t dismantle capitalist power structures which all but guaranteed the coup to happen eventually), but because of the coup that’s all swept under the rug and he’s a martyr.