Washington, la legitimación cubana y la paradoja de Allende

The so called Chilean Way to socialism, waybill of Popular Unity government headed by Allende, was a proposal double conditioned by external factors. On the one hand, the continent was a territory under undisputed jurisdiction of the United States within a Cold War scenario; on the other hand, the continental anti-capitalist paradigm was the revolutionary Cuba. Allende's paradox was that while for Washington he was a contrasted revolutionary, for the Cubans and their followers he was little more than a reformer. They only fully recognized his status as revolutionary when he blew himself up to La Moneda. From this fact, it became clear that the only way to be truly revolutionary and achieve socialism was that one established by the Cuban canon in Latin America: the armed battle.