Chile: LATAM Presidents attend acts of homage for 50 years of the coup d'état against Allende
With the presence of several Latin American presidents, Chile pays tribute to Salvador Allende 50 years after his death during the coup d'état. teleSUR
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00:00 As Chile commemorates the 50th anniversary of the coup d'etat against Salvador Allende,
00:17 several Latin American heads of state arrived at La Moneda Palace to take part in the homage
00:22 to the victims.
00:24 President Gabriel Boric, together with the guest heads of state and government, will
00:28 make a tour of the presidential palace of La Moneda in Santiago, the capital, and then
00:33 attend to a large citizen event in a square next to the seat of the executive.
00:38 Uruguay's former president, José Mujica, arrived with his wife, Lucia Topolansky, at
00:43 La Moneda Palace in Santiago.
00:45 Also, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president of Bolivia,
00:50 Luis Arce Catacora, and the former president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, attend the
00:55 events.
00:56 The local Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated in a press release that the Prime Minister
00:59 of Portugal, Antonio Costa, and the president of the Federal Council of Germany, Peter Zeichner,
01:06 have also confirmed their attendance.
01:08 This Monday, September 11th, marks 50 years since the General Augusto Pinochet perpetrated
01:14 a coup d'etat against the government of President Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1973, after
01:21 which he imposed a 17-year military dictatorship that left more than 40,000 victims.