Conversations With Allende, 50 years after the 1973 coup

Today marks fifty years since Augusto Pinochet carried out a US-backed coup against Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende. In honour of Allende's memory, Verso has published a new edition of Régis Debray's incredible book Conversations With Allende with an introduction from major Chilean political philosopher Camila Vergara. 

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Conversations with Allende

by Régis Debray

Introduction by Camila Vergara

Translated by Peter Beglan and Ben Brewster

The election in Chile of the Marxist leader of the Socialist Party, Salvador Allende, to the presidency in October 1970 inaugurated a political situation unique in Latin America and of world-wide s...