“Chile, a country which respects self-determination and practices nonintervention, has the legitimate right to demand that all countries treat her the same way.  The people of Chile recognize only themselves as the controllers of their destiny.” (62)
 
November 5, 1970
 
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Salvador Allende Gossens, “Inaugural Address in the National Stadium,” in Salvador Allende Reader: Chile’s Voice of Democracy (New York: Ocean Press, 2000), 62.