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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 21 > Widow of Chile’s Allende dies at 94

Widow of Chile’s Allende dies at 94

Hortensia Bussi led opposition to Pinochet after her husband’s death

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
June 21, 2009

SANTIAGO, Chile — Hortensia Bussi, the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende who helped lead opposition to the military dictatorship that ousted her socialist husband in a bloody 1973 coup, died Thursday. She was 94.

Her physician, Dr. Paz Rojas, said Bussi died while taking a....

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