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Chilean gov't
announces mourning for
anti-Pinochet Communist leader
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Chilean gov't announces mourning for anti-Pinochet Communist leader
The Chilean government ordered a two-day national mourning for Gladys
Marin, chairwoman of the Chilean Communist Party, who led a campaign
against the military regime of Augusto Pinochet.
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos said the government decision served as
"an expression of our respect for what she embodied and for the
thousands and thousands who in democracy followed her."
Marin died on Sunday after hours of coma at the age of 63.
"We are certain that she belonged not only to members of the party
alongside whom she fought but to all people who admire her and want to
pay homage to her," said Guillermo Teillier, general secretary of the
party, in a statement.
Marin's body is laid at the former National Congress in Santiago for
people to pay their last respects. Her funeral was scheduled for
Tuesday.
Marin had been fighting brain cancer for a year and a half. She and her
husband had been hunted by the Pinochet regime.
After her husband was arrested, Marin fled Chile in 1976 and returned in
1978 as a leader of underground resistance against Pinochet.
She was elected general secretary of the Chilean Communist Party in 1994
and chairwoman of the party in 2004, which has made the party one of the
largest communist parties in Latin America and a strong power in Chile's
labor unions.
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