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• International
• South America
• 09 / 12 / 2007

The homage included the placing of a floral wreath before the statue in his honor in Havana and a political activity at the orthopedics hospital that holds his name.

Each year, Cuban students and Chilean residents on the island remember the date in which the constitutionally elected president was killed in 1973.

Cuban television showed images on Monday of a speech delivered by Salvador Allende in which he warned that he would never abandon the Moneda Palace until the end of his mandate.

Allende visited Cuba in 1972 to offer his country's solidarity to the Cuban Revolutionary process.

Fidel Castro then Prime Minister at the time visited Chile where he carried out a tight working visit accompanied by Allende.