[Marxism] ACN: Cuba Marks Salvador Allende’s Centennial

[Walter Lippmann]

Cuba Marks Salvador Allende’s Centennial 

HAVANA, Cuba, June 18 (acn) Cuba is marking the 100th anniversary of the 
birth of late Chilean president Salvador Allende with a wide program of 
conferences, lectures and concerts.

Orlando Cruz, a researcher from the Philosophy Institute of Havana, gave 
a conference entitled ‘Allende and the Socialist Project’ at the Gladys 
Marín Hall of the Havana house named after the Chilean leader. 

During the presentation, Cruz spoke about the years prior to the 
electoral victory of Allende and the Unidad Popular Movement, and the 
difficult situations his government had to deal with before the 
September 1973 military coup. 

Participants at the conference also discussed the current situation of 
leftwing movements in Chile and Latin America, and destabilization plans 
by the George W. Bush administration to overthrow progressive 
governments in the region, like those of Evo Morales in Bolivia and Hugo 
Chavez in Venezuela. 

On June 18, journalists Marta Rojas and Orlando Contreras will offer a 
lecture entitled 1972: Fidel’s Encounter with the Chilean People.

Salvador Allende would be 100 on June 26.  Among the other activities 
planned are a series of concerts, a CD launching, and a ceremony to pay 
tribute to Allende at the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the 
Peoples. 

Allende died in combat at the La Moneda Presidential Palace on September 
11, 1973, while defending the constitutionality of his government 
against the fascist military coup headed by General Augusto Pinochet. 



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     WALTER LIPPMANN
     Los Angeles, California
     Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
     "Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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