Daughter of Chile's Allende eyes presidential bid in 2017
Source: Reuters
Daughter of Chile's Allende eyes presidential bid in 2017
Sat Jul 9, 2016 2:58pm EDT
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Isabel Allende, a ruling party senator in Chile and the daughter of deposed ex-president Salvador Allende, said she is considering running for president in next year's elections, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.
Allende's possible bid for the top job in Chile could pit her against ex-president Ricardo Lagos, another member of the socialist ruling party who has expressed interest in running.
Allende, whose father was ousted by former dictator Augusto Pinochet in a coup in 1973, said she has been leaning toward making a bid at the insistence of Chileans, according to local daily El Mercurio.
"For me it's an honor to know that people think I'm an option. There's also a potent symbolic element, that there be another Allende," she was quoted as saying in El Mercurio.
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He absolutely wasn't just removed from office.
The building he was in, the Presidential palace, La Moneda, was bombed heavily by Chilean Air Force bombers under orders of the US-guided traitors in the military, with snipers positioned on the roof of the building right across the street.
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Salvador Allende, before Nixon, Kissinger, and Pinochet got him.
General Pinochet and one of the Hawker Hunter jets sent to bomb the President's office.
Allende walked into La Moneda, was carried out, of course. Mission Accomplished for the fascists.
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Allende's Widow Returns to Chile After 15-Year Exile
By SHIRLEY CHRISTIAN, Special to the New York Times
Published: September 25, 1988
SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 24— The widow of Salvador Allende, Hortensia Bussi, came home today after 15 years of exile, through the ''wide open door'' that she had wanted. Mrs. Allende was swept by emotion after her flight from Buenos Aires crossed the snow-capped Andes and landed in the Chilean capital on a warm sunny day.
''I don't bring rancor or a desire for vengeance,'' she told the crowd waiting for her. ''I want a Chile where there is justice and democracy and where the rights of man are fully respected.''
Her voice broke down and she could not continue after she started to refer to one of her three daughters, Beatriz, who committed suicide in Cuba in 1977, and her husband, who died in the midst of the military coup that ousted his elected Government on Sept. 11, 1973.
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But after she went into exile, Mrs. Allende became a symbol of her husband's fallen government and traveled much of the world, denouncing human rights violations in Chile and asking foreign governments to press for the end of military rule here.
The Reagan Administration denied Mrs. Allende a visa in 1983 when she sought to attend a gathering in California, but later reversed itself when its action came under court challenge. Federal courts later found the visa denial to be improper.
More:
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/25/world/allende-s-widow-returns-to-chile-after-15-year-exile.html
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Hortensia, Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende, and daughters:
Carmen Paz Allende, Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende y Beatriz Allende. Estadio Nacional - Santiago de Chile - 1950.
Isabel Allende, the daughter,
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