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Beatriz Allende

Chilean politician (1942–1977)

Salvador Allende (father)
Hortensia Bussi (mother)

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Beatriz Patricia Ximena Allende Bussi (US: /ɑːˈjɛndeɪ, -di/,^[1]^[2] UK: /æˈ-, aɪˈɛn-/,^[3]^[4] Spanish: [be.aˈtɾis aˈʝende]; 8 September 1942 – 11 October 1977), also known as Tati Allende, was a Chilean Socialist politician, revolutionary and surgeon. She was the daughter of former president of Chile Salvador Allende and his wife, Hortensia Bussi.

Early life

She studied medicine at the University of Concepción from 1960 to 1962, and transferred to the University of Chile to complete her fourth year.^[5]

She was heavily involved in student politics at university, joining the Brigada Universitaria Socialista. Through this group, she met Renato Julio, who she married on the 6th of July, 1967. The relationship only lasted a few months.^[5]

Later, she married Cuban diplomat and agent Luis Fernández de Oña (also known as Rodolfo Gallart Grau), whom she met on a trip to Cuba in 1967.^[5]^[6]

Flight from Chile

When her father was elected as the president of Chile on 4 September 1970, Beatriz became his closest advisor and collaborator, networking with elements of the Chilean and international Left.^[7]^[8] During Pinochet's coup, she stayed with her father in La Moneda Presidential Palace, leaving only when President Allende ordered all women and children to evacuate. She was forced into exile with her mother, sisters, husband, and daughter Maya Alejandra Fernández Allende^[9] to Cuba. She was 8 months pregnant at the time with her son, Alejandro Salvador Allende Fernández.^[6]

Life in Cuba

While in exile, she served as executive secretary of an anti-imperialist solidarity committee: the Comité Chileno de Solidaridad Antiimperialista, in La Habana.

In 1977, she separated from Luis.^[5]

Death

Four years and one month after her father died and the 1973 Chilean coup d'état of Augusto Pinochet, she died by suicide with a firearm on October 11, 1977.^[10] The gun used was an Uzi gifted to her by Fidel Castro in 1971.^[5] Her body was buried in the Pantheon of Revolutionary Armed Forces in the Colon Cemetery in Havana.^[11]

Posthumous tributes

To defend her figure, the militants of the Progressive Party of Chile decided to bear her name organizing in the Tati Allende Progressive Women's Front.This was released on October 11, 2018, on the anniversary of her death, accompanied by a song in her tribute composed by Mónica Berríos.^[12]

References

^ "Allende". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
^ "Allende Gossens". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
^ "Allende, Salvador". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2021-08-07.
^ "Allende, Isabel". Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Longman. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Harmer, Tanya (2020). Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-5431-7.
^ ^a ^b "'She never forgave herself': Allende grandson reflects on Pinochet coup aftermath". SBS Language. Retrieved 2023-10-02.
^ Ruiz Tagle, Diana Veneros (January 1, 2003). Allende: un ensayo psicobiográfico. Editorial Sudamericana. p. 179. ISBN 978-956-262-181-6.
^ Dorfman, Ariel (2001). Rumbo al sur, deseando el norte. Seven Stories Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-58322-079-5.
^ "A 40 años de su muerte libro recupera la vida de Tati Allende, la hija guerrillera del ex presidente socialista". Lecturas Pehuén. 2017-09-29. Archived from the original on 2017-10-05. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
^ Agencias (October 14, 1977). "Repercusión del suicidio de Beatriz Allende en Latinoamérica". El País (in Spanish). Ediciones El País, S.L. ISSN 0213-4608. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
^ Labarca, Eduardo (November 13, 2017). Salvador Allende: Biografía sentimental. Editorial Catalonia. p. 564. ISBN 978-956-324-308-6.
^ "Mujeres Progresistas realizaron exitoso conversatorio sobre Tati Allende". Progresistas (in Spanish). 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2020-12-04.