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March 4, 2014

Chile: Daughter of Ousted President Allende to Lead Senate 
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In Chile, the daughter of ousted President Salvador Allende is poised to
become the first female leader of the Senate. Senator Isabel Allende
will take up the post next week after she was selected by lawmakers from
the party of President-elect Michelle Bachelet. Allende's father also
led the Senate before he was elected president in 1970. He was
overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup on September 11, 1973. He died in the
presidential palace on that day.

 

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