For the first time the Chilean justice will investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of former President Salvador Allende overthrown by the coup of 11 September 1973. The aim of the investigation will be to verify the official who gave his time on the military's suicide president dell'Unidad Popular.
For several years, the death of Allende was a real enigma because his family and activists of the left did not accept the possibility that he had killed and accused Pinochet and the army to have summarily executed in the Moneda Palace, seat of the Presidency Santiago. There is even a famous article by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a few months after the fact, reconstructed the circumstances of death and ruled that the President had been killed while fighting desperately against the onslaught of the army.
General Javier Palacios, who led the assault on the ground while the fighters bombed the headquarters of the Presidency, has always maintained that he found the lifeless body of Allende on a couch in his room: the President would be killed with the gun he had given two years before Fidel Castro.
Allende, testified that the general had pointed the gun under his chin and the bullet had crushed his brain. A version of the facts that his wife Hortensia Bussi, and all the international left has long refused to for sentimental reasons than for political reasons. On the other hand the tragic chaos of that morning were gone the other witnesses.
When Allende, with the building partially destroyed and completely surrounded, he decided to give up nearly all who were with him in the left Moneda. They were arrested and, in two or three days later, secretly killed in a military barracks. Both are remembered as the first "disappeared" of the dictatorship.
However, not everyone died. Some, like Miria Contreras "the Payita," Allende's personal secretary and mistress, survived. But having left the palace with the president in life, became convinced that he had been killed by the army of General Palacios. The most important testimony, that of Allende's personal physician who told of being next to him until the end and saw him as he pointed his gun to the throat, was kept secret for years.
Now the prosecutor Beatriz Pedrals presented in court requests for investigations relating to 726 cases of human rights violations between 1973 and 1990 - the seventeen years of the Pinochet dictatorship - all those ever investigated by the Chilean judiciary. Among these cases there is also what concerns the death of former president. 
For several years, the death of Allende was a real enigma because his family and activists of the left did not accept the possibility that he had killed and accused Pinochet and the army to have summarily executed in the Moneda Palace, seat of the Presidency Santiago. There is even a famous article by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a few months after the fact, reconstructed the circumstances of death and ruled that the President had been killed while fighting desperately against the onslaught of the army.
General Javier Palacios, who led the assault on the ground while the fighters bombed the headquarters of the Presidency, has always maintained that he found the lifeless body of Allende on a couch in his room: the President would be killed with the gun he had given two years before Fidel Castro.
Allende, testified that the general had pointed the gun under his chin and the bullet had crushed his brain. A version of the facts that his wife Hortensia Bussi, and all the international left has long refused to for sentimental reasons than for political reasons. On the other hand the tragic chaos of that morning were gone the other witnesses.
When Allende, with the building partially destroyed and completely surrounded, he decided to give up nearly all who were with him in the left Moneda. They were arrested and, in two or three days later, secretly killed in a military barracks. Both are remembered as the first "disappeared" of the dictatorship.
However, not everyone died. Some, like Miria Contreras "the Payita," Allende's personal secretary and mistress, survived. But having left the palace with the president in life, became convinced that he had been killed by the army of General Palacios. The most important testimony, that of Allende's personal physician who told of being next to him until the end and saw him as he pointed his gun to the throat, was kept secret for years.
Now the prosecutor Beatriz Pedrals presented in court requests for investigations relating to 726 cases of human rights violations between 1973 and 1990 - the seventeen years of the Pinochet dictatorship - all those ever investigated by the Chilean judiciary. Among these cases there is also what concerns the death of former president.
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