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Mexico City dedicates Book Fair to President Salvador Allende

Mexico City, Aug 16 (Prensa Latina) The Book Fair of the Autonomous University of Mexico City will be devoted to the 50th anniversary of the fall of Chilean President Salvador Allende during the fascist coup d'état.

The organizers said that the commemoration of the coup d’état perpetrated by General Augusto Pinochet on September 11, 1973 and its cruel results, will be extended during the days of the fair, which will be held from September 21 to 25 of that month, in San Lorenzo.

Monday, the first day of the fair, commemorating the 50th Anniversary, will be dedicated to the realization of various activities, among them, the workshop “Thanks to life”.

There will be a presentation of the text Allende at the United Nations, The Chilean Way to Socialism, and the Basic Program of the Popular Unity 1970-1976, which will be accompanied by an exhibition of posters.

A round table on historical memory has also been organized, at which the book “Cien voces rompen el silencio”. Testimony of former political prisoners of the military dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990)”, a compilation by Wally Kunstmann, who will be present at the event.

It is a formidable testimonial work, prefaced by Beatriz Torrez, head of the Academic Center jrr/of the Memory of Our America.

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