Is Chile Headed for a Showdown?

One striking image haunts the memory of those who witnessed the military coup that toppled Chilean President Salvador Allende in September 1973: the bombing of the Presidential Palace and its futile defense by a handful of aides and Allende himself. So ended the life of the only professed Marxist to be elected president of a Latin American nation. And so ended what had hitherto been the region’s most stable democracy. The present-day visitor to Santiago who is escorted around the Presi...