Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seeds which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.
Colocado en un tránsito histórico, pagaré con mi vida la lealtad al pueblo. Y les digo que tengo la certeza de que la semilla que hemos entregado a la conciencia digna de miles y miles de chilenos, no podrá ser segada definitivamente. Tienen la fuerza, podrán avasallarnos, pero no se detienen los procesos sociales ni con el crimen ni con la fuerza.
La historia es nuestra y la hacen los pueblos.
Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile, 11 September 1973
(ref:http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2006/allende110906.html)
On the 11 of September 1973 the Chilean coup d'état took place during the Presidency of Salvador Allende. When the troops surrounded the presidential palace, Allende gave his last speech to the Chilean people with a phone call to a local radio station. Later that day, he killed himself, according to investigations conducted by a Chilean court with the assistance of international experts.
The speech is the inspiration of this mural. At the centre of the mural is the portrait of Allende, and behind him is the symbol of the Unidad Popular coalition with whose support he was elected in November 1970 President of Chile. He has been the first Marxist to be democratically elected as president of a South American country.
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