Gennaro Carotenuto

Alla Moneda con Salvador Allende

The oral sources collected among the persons who were inside La Moneda Palace during the coup against Salvador Allende’s government, on 11th September 1973, facilitate the study of historiographical problems such as the resistance from inside the palace, with the participation of the president himself, and the question of the armed defence of the popular government, in the circumstances of Allende’s death. The thesis of the homicide is dismissed, and two different versions of the suicide proposed, that open the way to a series of considerations about how the Concertacion reconstructed the figure of Allende.