this is what the american-trained command sounded like on the radio revolutionary led by augu stopinochety occupied administrative buildings and fired rockets at the presidential palace. allende committed suicide. an ultimatum was presented to president allenda, who was in the lomaneda presidential palace. he was asked to resign and leave the country on a special plane with his family and associates. allenda refused. and then the military began storming the palace. after a five-hour battle, the presidential palace slept. president salvador allende shot himself in his office, not wanting to fall into the hands of the rebels. the military burst into the palace and found allenda's body at his workplace. either without realizing that the president was dead, or out of hatred, the rebels shot the already dead head of state, pumping more than a dozen bullets into him. thus, a military junta was established in chile, which would quickly plunge the country into the abyss of terror; its leader, the american protege augusta penochet, liked to repeat: democracy must be bathed in blood from time to ti