'Close the Congress!" Outlaw the judges!"
These were the demands at a mass rally of Chilean workers outside the presidential palace Congress, turned to the Christian Democrat in Santingo after the defeat of the abortive army revolt of 29 June.
The Christian Democrat party, once the orgamisers of the coup" were either in jail or seeking Patrix y Libertad grouping. They refused; and exile in the Ecuadorian embassy, proclaimed their opposition to the attempt and their allegiance to the Constitution - which they at once moved to wrap around Allende's neck.
The "companero Presidente", who told the crowd outside the presidential palace on Friday On Wednesday, 27 June, President Borduberry night that, "At the risk of disillusioning you, I shall be true to my oath and shall not close the congressional majority for a way out of the crisis. He requested the immediate ratitication of a Bill to give his administration six months emergency powers, principally to crush the on Tuesday the cabinet resigned.
ARMY PRESENCE In demanding that the army has the major presence in the new Cabinet, the Christian out a constitutional coup d'etat. And the Popular Unity leaders have been the ready complieces of such a settlement in the negotiations, The question now appears to be whether the army will accept it.
The army has been in the Popular Unity cabinet belute, when General Prats Gonzalez (the army commander-in-chief and other armed torees chiefs hell ministerial positions for a few months following the lorry owners' boycott la last October. Then and at every moment of crisis since, Allende has handed the control of the streets over to Prats and his General Staff, rather than allow the working class to deal with the fascists. In his Friday night speech, Allende was, as usual, full of praise for their 'loyalty' But as the head of the bourgeois army, Prats "People's power is all very well, he saxi, but it must be with the government, not outside it or parallel.to it.
Since Friday, however, there has been a massive wave of factory occupations: something the Socialist and Communist Party leaders had been trying to avoid for months, by insistence that "the enemy must not be provoked', that 'more must be produced' to stabilise' the economy.
By attempling instead to resolve the crisis 'constitutionally, Allende and the reformist Jeaderships of the Conununist and Sochlist Parties have cut the throat of the Popular Unity government.
As a coup, Friday's rebellion by the 2nd Tank