Petro confuses Salvador Allende’s daughter with the writer Isabel Allende

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroconfused the senator and daughter of the ousted Chilean president Salvador Allende (1970-1973), Isabel Allende Bussiwith the famous writer Isabel Allende Llonawhich unleashed criticism against him on social networks.

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“With Isabel Allendedaughter of the president’s colleague Salvador Allendeone of the best writers of Latin America”Petro wrote on X (formerly Twitter) and shared a photo with the senator.

The writer Allende is a relative of the overthrown president, as she is the daughter of Tomás Allende, the president’s cousin.

For that reason, the president deleted the message and then published a new one that said: “With Isabel Allende, president’s daughter Allende. Isabel was in the Moneda Palace with her father the day the army bombed the Palace to overthrow Allende”.

“There she saw him for the last time, she went out into the streets terrified and decided to escape. global complaint of what happened. Thousands of militants from the left and from worker and peasant organizations were murdered, tortured and disappeared.“added the president in his new message.

The president’s error caused the publication of dozens of memes in which social media users They published photos of Petro with personalities and then said that they were the children of other figures who had the same last name.

Likewise, in X the main trend in Colombia this morning is “Isabel Allende”.

Petro participated on Monday in Santiago in the commemoration events of the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup d’état.

Monday marked 50 years since General Augusto Pinochet led a coup d’état against the government of the socialist president Salvador Allende (1970-1973), who committed suicide in the presidential palace of The coin before being caught by the military.

He bang began a cruel 17-year dictatorship that left more than 40,000 victimsamong them at least 3,200 opponents murdered, of which 1,469 were victims of forced disappearance.

Source: Elcomercio

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