1)Why Did the United States Dislike Allende?

Chilean coup

Event

The 1973 overthrow of the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende represented a breaking point in Chile's history, as Gen. Augusto Pinochet brutally seized power in a coup d'état strongly supported by the United States. Pinochet replaced democratic socialism with a repressive military regime that arrested, tortured, and executed tens of thousands of Chileans while it instituted harsh but successful neoliberal economic reforms.
Allende of the Popular Unity Party (UP) became president in 1970 after winning 36.3% of the vote. Allende then set out to transform the economy along socialist lines. The UP government froze prices, boosted wages, and began to nationalize the economy. Allende, pushed by the far left, nationalized the copper industry as well as foreign companies like International Telephone and Telegraph and Ford Motor Company andexpropriated land in the countryside. The upper and middle classes mobilized against those policies. Store owners withdrew produce from shelves, middle-class housewives staged protests, and professionals like doctors and lawyers organized strikes and demonstrations.
By 1972, the political climate had become highly polarized. Prosocialist mass demonstrations were countered by massive protest marches. Elections in 1973 demonstrated solid working-class support for Allende's policies as he made slight electoral gains, but he failed to win a decisive majority in the legislature. Following the election, copper workers, truck drivers, and professionals all went on strike against the UP government. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency became directly involved with the opposition by funding the striking truck drivers. Many in the middle class started to believe that there was no democratic solution to the political stalemate. The United States strengthened its economic boycott against Chile while it maintained close ties to the military. In an atmosphere of paralyzing demonstrations, strikes, hyperinflation, and capital flight, the military began to plot against Allende. On September 11, 1973, the military launched a well-organized coup that seized power from the socialist government.
The coup became one of the most violent in Latin America's history. Allende committed suicide in the presidential palace, and more than 2,000 people were killed. Pinochet quickly made clear that he intended to make a clear break with Chile's democratic traditions and remain in power indefinitely. He dissolved the Chilean Congress, banned political parties, and arrested, tortured, and executed tens of thousands of leftists in the first year of his regime. After brutally establishing power, Pinochet placed a team of University of Chicago trained technocrats in charge of the economy. They instituted a neoliberal economic plan that privatized virtually every aspect of the economy and emphasized export. Although violent human rights abuses characterized his regime, Pinochet's economic policy produced consistent economic growth. In 1988, Pinochet lost a vote on his one-man rule and reluctantly accepted a transition to a guarded democracy.