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Allende was outspoken in his intent to dramatically "transform" Chile according to socialist principles, which concerned moderate voters and politicians. The Chilean Congress voted to give Allende the presidency, in accordance with run-off rules in place at the time, but required Allende to sign a special statement promising that his reforms would always respect the constitution.  

Allende was outspoken in his intent to dramatically "transform" Chile according to socialist principles, which concerned moderate voters and politicians. The Chilean Congress voted to give Allende the presidency, in accordance with run-off rules in place at the time, but required Allende to sign a special statement promising that his reforms would always respect the constitution.  

During his government, Allende instituted a plan called the "Chilean way to socialism" (''La vía chilena al socialism'') or "socialism within pluralism" in attempt to address the unequal distribution of wealth in the Chilean economy, but which led to widespread disruption and social polarisation.  Upon assuming power Allende expropriated private sector business, middle class and [[bourgeois]] property and began to implement an agrarian reforms and a program to nationalise vital industry.  Allende posted some of his supporters to oversee these expropriations and nationalisation, including David Silberman <ref>http://www.jta.org/1976/02/06/archive/family-of-former-chilean-jewish-official-seeking-his-where-abouts</ref> (disappeared) who was assigned to oversee the "nationalization" of Chile's largest copper industry: Chuquicamata. The media wrote extensively of Allende's failures.  Strikes and shutdowns caused massive inflation and unrest, and the conservative-controlled Chilean Congress sought to reject Allende's proposals whenever possible, causing considerable political gridlock.

During his government, Allende instituted a plan called the "Chilean way to socialism" (''La vía chilena al socialismo'') or "socialism within pluralism" in attempt to address the unequal distribution of wealth in the Chilean economy, but which led to widespread disruption and social polarisation.  Upon assuming power Allende expropriated private sector business, middle class and [[bourgeois]] property and began to implement an agrarian reforms and a program to nationalise vital industry.  Allende posted some of his supporters to oversee these expropriations and nationalisation, including David Silberman <ref>http://www.jta.org/1976/02/06/archive/family-of-former-chilean-jewish-official-seeking-his-where-abouts</ref> (disappeared) who was assigned to oversee the "nationalization" of Chile's largest copper industry: Chuquicamata. The media wrote extensively of Allende's failures.  Strikes and shutdowns caused massive inflation and unrest, and the conservative-controlled Chilean Congress sought to reject Allende's proposals whenever possible, causing considerable political gridlock.

US intelligence reports implicated Allende in the assassination of several opponents,<ref>http://nixontapeaudio.org/chile/517-004.pdf</ref> while KGB files smuggled out of Russia by [[Vasily Mitrokhin]] indicate that Allende received funds and support from the Soviet Union. <ref name=KGB>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/TheWorldWasGoingOurWayTheKGBAndTheBattleForTheTheThirdWorld/The+World+Was+Going+Our+Way_djvu.txt|title=The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World|coauthors=CHRISTOPHER ANUREW and VASILI MlTROKlilN|quote=By far the most important of the KGB’s confidential contacts in South America was Salvador Allende Gossens (codenamed LEADER by the KGB),— whose election as President of Chile in 1970 was hailed by a Moscow commentator as ‘second only to the victory of the Cuban Revolution in the magnitude of its significance as a revolutionary blow to the imperialist system in Latin America’ (...) Allende had first attracted KGB attention in the early 1950s when, as leader of the Chilean Socialist Party (Partido Socialista), he had formed an alliance with the then banned Communist Party. In 1952 he stood with its support at the presidential election but won only 6 per  

US intelligence reports implicated Allende in the assassination of several opponents,<ref>http://nixontapeaudio.org/chile/517-004.pdf</ref> while KGB files smuggled out of Russia by [[Vasily Mitrokhin]] indicate that Allende received funds and support from the Soviet Union. <ref name=KGB>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/TheWorldWasGoingOurWayTheKGBAndTheBattleForTheTheThirdWorld/The+World+Was+Going+Our+Way_djvu.txt|title=The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World|coauthors=CHRISTOPHER ANUREW and VASILI MlTROKlilN|quote=By far the most important of the KGB’s confidential contacts in South America was Salvador Allende Gossens (codenamed LEADER by the KGB),— whose election as President of Chile in 1970 was hailed by a Moscow commentator as ‘second only to the victory of the Cuban Revolution in the magnitude of its significance as a revolutionary blow to the imperialist system in Latin America’ (...) Allende had first attracted KGB attention in the early 1950s when, as leader of the Chilean Socialist Party (Partido Socialista), he had formed an alliance with the then banned Communist Party. In 1952 he stood with its support at the presidential election but won only 6 per  

1964. — The new Soviet embassy in Santiago contained the first KGB legal residency on Chilean soil.— }}</ref>

1964. — The new Soviet embassy in Santiago contained the first KGB legal residency on Chilean soil.— }}</ref>

<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219461/pinochet-history-nro-symposium</ref>  In the infamous "Cuban Packages Scandal" that precipitated his eventual ouster, large quantities of weapons were sent from [[Fidel Castro]]'s Cuba to arm pro-Allende terrorists in Chile.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219461/pinochet-history-nro-symposium</ref> Kissinger privately told Nixon that Allende might declare martial law.<ref>http://nixontapeaudio.org/chile/517-004.pdf</ref> By 1973, as a result of covert US aid to Chilean dissidents and financing of pro-democracy protestors, US intelligence indicated Allende would likely lose the next Chilean election if it was held.<ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=15648</ref>  Volodia Teitelboim, the chief ideologue of the Communist Party in Chile, declared that if civil war came, "it probably would signify immense loss of human lives, between half a million and one million."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20040108221609/http://lyd.org/noticias/violencia/what_really.html</ref> Allende's sister, Laura Allende, spoke at the [[Peoples Temple]] in San Francisco to make the case for Chilean socialism.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YcXsCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89&lpg=PT89&dq=Laura+Allende+jim+jones&source=bl&ots=oYzBuLkqli&sig=ACfU3U3WxYWRcNbxWq-X_4F6_pdlCC-JlA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc0unTvargAhWH8oMKHTfkBlwQ6AEwC3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=Laura%20Allende%20jim%20jones&f=false Carole M. Cusac, ''Sacred Sucide''].</ref>

<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219461/pinochet-history-nro-symposium</ref>  In the infamous "Cuban Packages Scandal" that precipitated his eventual ouster, large quantities of weapons were sent from [[Fidel Castro]]'s Cuba to arm pro-Allende terrorists in Chile.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219461/pinochet-history-nro-symposium</ref> Kissinger privately told Nixon that Allende might declare martial law.<ref>http://nixontapeaudio.org/chile/517-004.pdf</ref> By 1973, as a result of covert US aid to Chilean dissidents and financing of pro-democracy protestors, US intelligence indicated Allende would likely lose the next Chilean election if it was held.<ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=15648</ref>  Volodia Teitelboim, the chief ideologue of the Communist Party in Chile, declared that if civil war came, "it probably would signify immense loss of human lives, between half a million and one million."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20040108221609/http://lyd.org/noticias/violencia/what_really.html</ref> Allende's sister, Laura Allende, spoke at the [[Peoples Temple]] in San Francisco to make the case for Chilean socialism.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YcXsCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89&lpg=PT89&dq=Laura+Allende+jim+jones&source=bl&ots=oYzBuLkqli&sig=ACfU3U3WxYWRcNbxWq-X_4F6_pdlCC-JlA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc0unTvargAhWH8oMKHTfkBlwQ6AEwC3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=Laura%20Allende%20jim%20jones&f=false Carole M. Cusac, ''Sacred Sucide''].</ref>

Allende was formally condemned by Chile's parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, in its Resolution of August 22, 1973,<ref>https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Breakdown_of_Chile%E2%80%99s_Democracy “Declaration of the Breakdown of Chile’s Democracy”</ref> which accused Allende of support of armed groups, torture, illegal arrests, muzzling the press, confiscating [[private property]], and not allowing people to leave the country. The text of the Resolution was published in the government newspaper ''LA NACION'' on August 25, 1973, and (English translation by Chilean economist [[José Piñera]])'' "...it is their (the Chilean military's) duty to put an immediate end to all situations herein referred to that breach the Constitution and the laws of the land..."''

Allende was formally condemned by Chile's parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, in its Resolution of August 22, 1973,<ref>https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Breakdown_of_Chile%E2%80%99s_Democracy “Declaration of the Breakdown of Chile’s Democracy”</ref> which accused Allende of support of armed groups, torture, illegal arrests, muzzling the press, confiscating [[private property]], and not allowing people to leave the country. The text of the Resolution was published in the government newspaper ''LA NACION'' on August 25, 1973, and (English translation by Chilean economist [[José Piñera]])'' "...it is their (the Chilean military's) duty to put an immediate end to all situations herein referred to that breach the Constitution and the laws of the land..."''