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November 10, 2008

Artists Meet in Chile to Honor Allende
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In Chile, artists from around the world gathered in the capital Santiago
for a weekend concert honoring the late former President Salvador
Allende. Allende was overthrown in a 1973 US-backed military coup. His
daughter, Isabel Allende, said her father has become a universal symbol
for democratic socialism.

Isabel Allende: “We see in Salvador Allende a universal symbol. He was
the first democrat who, in Chile, tried to take a path of socialism
within the framework of democracy, pluralism and freedom.”



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