“Neither 50 nor 100 years will erase the horror of the 1973 military coup, nor the dignity of President Allende, who fulfilled the mandate from his people at the cost of his own life,” the president wrote on his account on X, formerly Twitter. The president of the National People’s Power Assembly of Cuba, Esteban Lazo, in turn, recalled a phrase from the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, when he said that Allende showed more dignity, more honor, more courage and more heroism than all the military fascists together.

The secretary of organization of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales, stated that 50 years ago, the fascist bombs led Chile to horror and death, but as he had promised, Allende gave his life in defense of the people.

“His courage made him a symbol of the struggle against fascism and imperialism,” Morales added.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez commemorated the heroic resistance of President Allende and his comrades in defense of independence and democracy against the fascist attack on Palacio de la Moneda, instigated and orchestrated by the United States.

Fifty years ago, one of the darkest and bloodiest pages in the history of democracy and the workers’ movement in Latin America took place on the morning of September 11, 1973, when Palacio de la Moneda (the seat of the Executive) was bombed and assaulted.

President Allende, faced with the demand to surrender, responded through Radio Magallanes with words that placed him forever among the greats of the region: “… I will not resign… I will pay with my life… I am sure that the seed that we have given to the worthy conscience of thousands of Chileans cannot be destroyed.”

Around one o’clock in the afternoon of that day and once all possibilities of resistance had been exhausted, Allende died after most of his bodyguards and other combatants had fallen in the struggle or were captured after running out of ammunition.

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