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Chilean Ex-Allende government Cabinet Minister Carlos Briones (C) partly obscured by microphone, speaking to a crowd during the memorial organised by the Communist and Socialist parties on the 12th anniversary of the death of the deposed Socialist President Salvadore Allende (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

How public influence over economic matters is eroded

The experience of Chile’s Salvador Allende illustrates how the private sphere and superpowers control investment and natural resource exploitation

  • Des Erasmus
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