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These pages contain a brief selection of documents of the Chilean left during the period of the Popular Unity government. There are 19 key texts of that time, selected by Arturo Fontaine Talavera, Ximena Hinzpeter and Cristian Perez, from among the documents (speeches, articles, letters, reports, etc.) gathered by Victor Farias in his six-volume work entitled La Izquierda Chilena 1969-1973: Documentos para su Línea Estratégica (Centro de Estudios Publicos, 2000; translation: The Chilean Left 1969-1973: Documents on its Strategic Line). Also included on this occasion is a prologue by Victor Farias. This selection is added to the anthologies of the work by Victor Farias prepared earlier by Cristian Perez and published by Estudios Publicos in 2001 and 2002.
The period from 1969 to 1973 marked a fundamental stage in our recent history. Centro de Estudios Publicos has endeavored to make a contribution to its study and comprehension by publication of the documents gathered by Victor Farias and also of the two volumes entitled Los Mil Días de Allende (translation: The Thousand Days of Allende), which looked at the years of the Popular Unity through the written press.
Moreover, apart from several essays on the period, CEP has disclosed, through its journal Estudios Públicos, the testimonies of important players of the time, such as Edward Korry, U.S. Ambassador to Chile at the start of Salvador Allende’s government, and General Nikolai Leonov, Vice-Director of the Latin American Department of the KGB from 1968-1972. It has also revealed information on the amounts and destination of the funds sent by the American and Soviet governments to Chile, before and during Salvador Allende’s government (see articles by E. Korry, Eugenia Fediakova and Olga Ulianova). And its pages have provided important information (see articles by Cristian Perez) on the groups who propitiated an armed revolution in Chile, such as the MIR (Revolutionary Left Movement) and on the ties of the Castro regime to sectors of the Chilean left, including members of the personal guard of President Allende and those who continued the fight of Che Guevara in Teoponte, Bolivia.