Exclusive: With My Father, Salvador Allende, in His Final Hours

 

 

 "As Chile commemorates the 50th anniversary of the US-backed military coup, the family of President Salvador Allende is also remembering him 50 years after his death on September 11, 1973. His daughter, Senator Isabel Allende, has published a short memoir—11 de Septiembre: Esa semana—about the week of the coup. In the excerpt below, she recounts her own experience on the harrowing day of September 11 when she made her way to La Moneda palace, where her father and his top aides were under siege, and reflects on the meaning of the coup and his death for her family, for Chile and for the world community."

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