Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday recalled the 115th birth anniversary of Chilean leader Salvador Allende, whom he described as a complete revolutionary, an example of dignity and courage.
Diaz-Canel stressed on Twitter that Allende was not only a great friend of Cuba but also of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro.
Meanwhile, the member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of Cuban Communist Party (PCC) Roberto Morales live-tweeted that the legacy of former Chilean president is more alive than ever.
In turn, he reminded Allende’s iconic phrase: “History is ours and peoples have been making it,” which he said in his last speech through Radio Magallanes after Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’état on September 11, 1973.
Such personality had become the Chile´s first socialist president having dedicated his whole life to social struggles since he had been in favor of the poorest people of that country.
From Wikipedia
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (born on June 26, 1908) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America.
Allende’s involvement in Chilean politics spanned a period of nearly forty years, having covered the posts of senator, deputy and cabinet minister. As a life-long committed member of the Socialist Party of Chile, whose foundation he had actively contributed to, he unsuccessfully ran for the national presidency in the 1952, 1958, and 1964 elections. In 1970, he won the presidency as the candidate of the Popular Unity coalition, in a close three-way race. He was elected in a run-off by Congress, as no candidate had gained a majority.
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