Notable Quote: "I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.".Children: Paula Frías Allende, Nicolás Frías Allende.Parents: Tomás Allende and Francisca Llona Barros.Known For: Magical realism author and memoirist.After Chile's return to democracy in 1990, her body was returned and on August 28, 1998, she was reinterred at the Allende family mausoleum in Santiago. In 1976 she moved to Cuba, where she lived until her death.Īfter being diagnosed with terminal cancer she committed suicide in Havana, Cuba, on May 23, 1981. Later exiled from the country, she relocated to Mexico. The two were taken to the prison camp of Cuatro Alamos. On Novemshe was arrested together with her daughter Marianne.
At that time, she already was showing the first symptoms of the lymphatic cancer that was to haunt her till the end of her life. During this time she was part of two international delegations: first to Havana in 1971, and then to China, in May 1973. In 1969 she was reelected, and again in 1973. In 1965, she was elected deputy for Santiago and Talagante. She also worked at the Copper Office (Departamento del Cobre) from 1955 to 1965, before launching her political career. She married Gastón Pascal Lyon, with whom she had four children, among them Andrés Pascal Allende, the future revolutionary. While at the university, she joined the Chilean Socialist Party (PS), of which in time she would become a member of its central committee. She later studied law at the Universidad de Chile in Valparaíso for four years, but never completed her degree.
Laura Allende completed her studies at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Valparaíso and the Liceo of Viña del Mar. She was born in Tacna, then under Chilean rule, the youngest child of Salvador Allende Castro and Laura Uribe. Laura Allende Gossens (3 September 1911 – ) was a Chilean politician, a member of the lower chamber of parliament and sister of former president of Chile Salvador Allende.Ī member of the Allende family, Laura was of Basque and Belgian ( Walloons) descent.
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