sentences:  So successful was he that the Soviet Union tried to latch onto his popularity, claiming in their media that his vocal prowess was the result of surgery he had undergone while in Moscow.Backed by the United States, which opposed Allende's socialist politics, the Chilean military staged a coup d'état on September 11, 1973, resulting in the death of Allende and the installation of Augusto Pinochet as dictator.At the moment of the coup, Jara was on his way to the Technical University (today the Universidad de Santiago).