There are situations that complicate the development of a country, and sometimes these circumstances are not always in the hands of the government of the country. When this happens, it seems that the progress of this country is called into question and the resources that were once unlimited become limited and the country is at a standstill with no improvement being made. For Chile, the hour of struggle arrived when Salvador Allende, a left-wing party member and leader of Unidad Popular (Popular Unity), became the country's president in November 1970. Salvador Allende was a left-wing thinker and For the United States, just like President Nixon, they feared that this election would change a lot of things and they did everything in their power to stop the rise of Salvador Allende to the presidency of Chile (Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, 164). The United States viewed the election of a left-wing political party, in this case the mindset of a country pushing toward a socialist/Marxist government, as somewhat perplexing, not for reasons of differences political, but for an economic hegemony which was going to be lost. When he came to the presidency, he insisted that a change in economic growth was something the United States considered a great threat. This was a threat because the United States owned many businesses in the country, and with Allende in charge, it made relations between the two nations complicated (John Pike). The United States wanted to control its growing businesses, as well as other monetary centers in the country, and Allende did not want foreign investment to get its hands on key resources that could help the country's finances. The strained relationship between the two caused the United States to take the extreme step of carrying out a coup on September 11, 1...... middle of paper ...... complicating such as nationalization of certain industries , but these victories did not last long. The constant absorption of American capitalism has prevented growth, not only politically, but also economically. The political conflict that Chile received from the United States did not help matters; it simply made interactions more difficult in the economic development of the country. By pushing to block the economy of all American companies and some foreign companies, the United States prevented Chile from increasing its own revenues and the profits of its companies, and made the economic flow of income unstable for Allende's mandate. The Chilean country did not have a successful path to socialism and it did not have a very successful economy, which prevented the country from growing and becoming independent and not dependent on foreign companies that helped its income to increase..