In Chile, thousands gathered to mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of the US-backed overthrow of President Salvador Allende. On September 11, 1973, Allende died in the presidential palace in the attack that brought Augusto Pinochet to power. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet marked the anniversary by restoring the office where Allende died.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet: “Salvador Allende’s legacy motivates us to seek a better life through liberty and democracy every day, a legacy that we feel is so alive inside us when we open this blessed space to honor his memory.”

Allende’s daughter, Isabel Allende, also attended the ceremony.

Isabel Allende: “His words and messages were full of hope, and I believe there are few examples of dignity as the one he left us, and that is why it has such a universal reach.”