Michael Norman Manley ON OCC (December 10, 1924 - March 6, 1997) was the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972 - 1980, 1989 - 1992). Michael Manley was a democratic socialist.

The second son of Jamaica's Premier Norman Manley and Jamaican artist Edna Manley, Michael Manley was a charismatic figure who became the leader of the Jamaican People's National Party a few months before his father's death in 1969.

Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (June 26, 1908 - September 11, 1973) was a physician and the first democratically elected Marxist socialist to become president of a state in the Americas.

Allende's involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years. As a member of the Socialist Party, he was a senator, deputy and cabinet minister. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in the 1952, 1958, and 1964 elections, but was appointed in 1970.

Allende served as the President of Chile from November 4, 1970 until the U.S.-backed September 11, 1973 coup d'état that ended his democratically elected Popular Unity government. During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech where he vowed to stay in the presidential palace. The cause of death was suicide.

"Make the economy scream [in Chile to] prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him" — Richard Nixon, orders to CIA director Richard Helms on September 15, 1970.