Oscar Guardiola-Rivera at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

Salvador Allende’s Last Stand



Why was Latin America’s first democratically-elected Marxist president deposed in a violent coup in 1973? Why had business leaders and military officers in Chile been collaborating with the US Government and the CIA for months to end his regime? Colombian-born writer Oscar Guardiola-Rivera’s riveting Story of a Death Foretold lays bare the Cold War paranoia and rabid anti-communism that led to Allende’s downfall.



In association with the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies