Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende — Attraction in Santiago

As an American, this museum was a very good place to stop. It was a sort of spiritual journey for me, to pay homage to man and people who understood that rich people do not get rich on their own, but through the theft of a nations resources as though they alone deserve the profits and no one else who lives there. The rich people of my nation interfered in this man's progress and ultimately killed him. He was more of a hero than any president in the USA. I see comments on here speaking of revisionist history about Allende; the truth is that the revisions are about what he was trying to do for the folk of Chile - namely, taking back the countries resources and splitting the profits with all the people, such as how the State of Alaska gives all its citizens an oil dividend each year. Today, as the people of the United States get poorer and poorer, perhaps they, and more Chilean's may consider this man's plight and recognise true fearlessness. May you rest in...

Well done if you are a student of revisionist history as many Chileans seem to be. Everything about Allende in Chile today is deified, including the statue of him in the Plaza Moneda. Yes, it was a dark time in Chile's history but no one is willing to step up and talk or display the things that led up to the coup. I am not talking about the CIA here, I am talking about the crumbling infrastructure and class warfare that evolved as a result of Allende's presidency. Too bad both sides aren't told but that is what is taught in a socialist society to the...

This isn't a museum dedicated to Allende, as you might be expecting. It's dedicated to the artwork that he requested from artists around the world in solidarity with Chile's left-wing stance at the time. This building was used by the dictatorship and now, decades later, for solidarity again. There's a Picasso hanging in the children's room. It only gets a 3-star rating because it was partially closed for renovations when I went...