On September 4, 1970, Allende won the elections as the candidate of the Popular Unity, a coalition made up of left-wing groups, including the Socialist and Communist parties and the Unitary Popular Action Movement (MAPU).
During the thousand days of his government, important transformations were carried out in the country, such as the nationalization of copper, the deepening of the agrarian reform, the half liter of milk daily to eliminate child malnutrition and the universalization of health.
“Allende won after four elections, it was not overnight, but the result of a people that organized itself and for the first time Socialism came to power democratically,” Pablo Teillier told Prensa Latina.
The son of the recently deceased president of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), Guillermo Teillier, participated in the pilgrimage along with the widow of the former leader of that organization, Margarita Alvarado.
“My father would surely be here, so obviously we are on his behalf and because of what the figure of Allende represents,” he said.
The march passed in front of the door of Morandé 80, of the Palacio de La Moneda, where the remains of the dignitary were removed on September 11, 1973, when the coup led by Augusto Pinochet took place.
In his speech at the end of the pilgrimage, the general secretary of the PCCh, Lautaro Carmona, recalled that in this same square, the president warned of a serious conspiracy of reactionary elements that, in order to attack the advance of the people, did not hesitate to resort to fascist practices.
He denounced that today the ultra-right makes abusive use of its majority in the Constitutional Council in charge of drafting a new magna carta to replace the one in force since the time of the dictatorship (1973-1990).
If the Constitution proposal emanating from that council goes above the interests of the people, without a doubt, it will be rejected, said Carmona.
Also this Monday, the participants in the International Summit for Democracy and Human Rights, held in the commune of Recoleta on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the coup, paid tribute to Allende.
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