People’s Union (Chile)

Unidad Popular

Last modified: 2016-04-30 by alex garofolo
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Design used in the 1970 Allende presidential campaign.

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• Coalition Members

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About the flag

I've found a design of a possible Unidad Popular flag, and i made the drawing which might be correct.
Santiago Gómez, 09 Aug 2006

The black saltire vertically represent the letters VXA, which stand for Vote (For) Allende, where an X is what a voter writes on the ballot.
Alex Garofolo, 29 Jan 2016

Variant without "UP"

There is alos a flag/design from the 1964 presidential campaign, it is drawn exactly the same but without the U.P. initials but the V.X.A. (Vote For Allende / Vota para Allende is the same.
Santiago Gómez, 09 Aug 2006

The Unidad Popular was formed in 1969, which probably explains why this flag does not carry the U.P. initials. Allende contested the presidency in 1964.
Alex Garofolo, 29 Jan 2016

Coalition Members

• PS - Socialist Party
• SDCH - Chilean Social Democracy Party
• PCCh - Communist Party
• API - Independent Popular Action
• MAPU - Popular Unitary Action Movement
• PR - Radical Party

• PIR - Radical Left Party (PR splinter group)
• IC - Christian Left
• MAPU OC (MAPU Obrero Campesino) a Worker-Farmer splinter group)

During the military dictatorship that ruled after the 1973 coup d'état , all parties (and their members) that comprised the U.P. were outlawed by Decreto Ley (Decree Law) No. 77 of October 8, 1973. The U.P. leadership still existed in exile. However in 1979 with the fractioning of the PS (the UP's driving force) the U.P. finally ceased to exist in 1981.
Esteban Rivera, 9 Mar 2016

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