president allende wrote: "chilean democracy is a conquest by all of the people. it is neither the work nor the gift of the exploiting classes, and it will be defended by those who, with sacrifices accumulated over generations, have imposed it . . . with a tranquil conscience . . . i sustain that never before has chile had a more democratic government than that over which i have the honor to preside . . . i solemnly reiterate my decision to develop democracy and a state of law to their ultimate consequences . . . parliament has made itself a bastion against the transformations . . . and has done everything it can to perturb the functioning of the finances and of the institutions, sterilizing all creative initiatives".