The Congress, of Chile, elects Salvador Allende, a physician and candidate for the Socialist Party as the next president over independent-conservative former President Jorge Alessandri (153-35, with seven abstentions and five absent). Congress decided the winner, as no candidate won a simple majority in the popular election the previous month.
Postscript: Because the Central Intelligence Agency had been unable to prevent the election of Allende, it sold its Anaconda Copper stock for fear its Chilean holdings would be nationalized by the new Marxist government.
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References:
Marchetti, Victor and John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974; New York: Dell, 1974), 81(n1)
1970 Chilean presidential election – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Chilean_presidential_election#Congressional_confirmation
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