"Valencian socialism has always had a strong link with Chile." This was stated this morning by the leader of the PSPV, Ximo Puig, in the tribute that the Valencian federation has paid today to Salvador Allende on the 50th anniversary of the Coup d'état. "We cannot lose the memory of Allende, and his legacy of dignity and humanity will always be permanent among us," added the former Valencian president.
Along the same lines, he has defended that Allende "perfectly defined the inseparable parameters that are freedom and equality, fundamental for socialism." Finally, he pointed out that the presence of the extreme right in governments "cannot just happen" and has assured that "we are going to fight so that intolerance, lack of solidarity, fanaticism and xenophobia disappear from our streets."
Vicent Garcés, a Valencian politician who was a worker at the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture when the coup took place, was present at the event. He is the brother of Joan Garcés, the jurist and political scientist who was at Allende's side until almost the last moment. Vicent Garcés has explained his experience in those days and has made it clear that "it was the Chilean oligarchy with the help of the United States administration that prepared for a long time the overthrow of the legitimate government of Allende."
Vicent Garcés, in this "deserved tribute from the Valencian socialists to a great socialist such as Allende", has reflected on his "enormous impact" and why the coup d'état of September 11 and the death of the Chilean president "is remembered 50 years later throughout Latin America, Europe, many countries in Africa and Asia".
Garcés has stated that Allende's electoral victory "automatically produced a response" from the Chilean oligarchy and "the United States government" with Richard Nixon in the Presidency and Henry Kissinger as Security Advisor, who had been planning the coup since 1970. .
"It has been documented that it was a coup sought, worked and organized to end the peaceful electoral democratic experience of a socialist who had come to power," he said, noting that Nixon and Kissinger knew that it was an example that could not be left behind. live. "They had to annihilate that example," she stated.
In that sense, he highlighted that the government of Salvador Allende "meant something unprecedented" and symbolized what "the Latin American and European left were looking for at that time, to get rid of the Stalinist vision, of the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the transformation of society. through a violent revolution", and "reach the government with a left-wing program through electoral and democratic means".
Vicent Garcés has recalled how his brother Joan Garcés accompanied Salvador Allende the hours before his death in the Palacio de la Moneda, preparing what would be his last intervention, surrounded by the coup forces and before being bombed.
"At a certain moment, when Allende sees that they are going to bomb the Palacio de la Moneda, Salvador Allende grabs Joan (Garcés) and tells her: 'You have to go, try to save yourself because someone has to write what happened.' Allende "I personally accompanied him to the main door of the currency," said the advisor's brother, who added that "practically all of those who were there that day at the Mondera Palace are dead."
Joan Garcés "fulfilled the mandate given to him by Allende" with the publication of several books, among which his brother has highlighted 'Allende and the Chilean experience: The weapons of politics' and 'Sovereign and intervened'. Finally, Garcés has also related the "coup d'état with the first great battle of neoliberalism", which later "is installed in Chile under conditions of dictatorship."
The writer Emma Sepúlveda, a Chilean exile, has explained that living in the United States, when Donald Trump won the elections, "she began to feel echoes of an extreme right that reminded her of the Chilean one" and she left for Valencia, where she explained that she lived with "the result of the last regional elections" is a surprise.
Thus he has shown "absolute conviction that the united people will never be defeated, in Chile or in Spain." "History is made by the people, as Allende said in his last speech, we are still a lot of people and there is too much history to write," he added.
