FIGURE OF FORMER CHILEAN PRESIDENT ALLENDE PLACED IN LA MONEDA PALACE TO COMMEMORATE CENTENNIAL OF HIS BIRTH
August 07, 2008
August 07, 2008
SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 7 -- The office of the President of Chile issued the following news release:
The figure of former President Salvador Allende Gossens (1908-1973) has symbolically returned to La Moneda Palace - the place where he died during the 1973 coup d'état - in the form of a grand exhibition to commemorate the centennial of his birth. After 35 years, his legacy is reflected in a country which has recovered democracy and is moving forward in unity, leaving divisions beh . . .
The figure of former President Salvador Allende Gossens (1908-1973) has symbolically returned to La Moneda Palace - the place where he died during the 1973 coup d'état - in the form of a grand exhibition to commemorate the centennial of his birth. After 35 years, his legacy is reflected in a country which has recovered democracy and is moving forward in unity, leaving divisions beh . . .