Salvador Isabelino del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 - 18 January 1987) was a Chilean communist political leader and dictator, ruling as the President of Chile between 1964 and 1987 during the Chilean Communist Era. While initially a wildly popular left-wing caudillo opposing the military-backed right-wing government of Chile, Allende's hard-left policies alienated many moderates within Chile and the collapse of the Western Hemisphere's financial structure in 1979 produced the first famine in Chilean history in the fall of 1979 into 1980.