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"The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule."
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Source: Editorial by the North American Congress on Latin America, July 2003.
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