translated from Spanish: He died a doctor who pressed Salvador Allende’s suicide.

Physician Patricio Guijón Klein, the only witness to the suicide of President Salvador Allende at the Palacio de La Moneda on September 11, 1973, died at the age of 88 this Friday in the town of Putú, a commune in constitution of the Maule Region.Mayor Carlos Valenzuela confirmed to Cooperativa that he decreed three days of communal mourning for the death of the Galeno , who lived his last years in the same town where he was born.” There is a figure in the history of Chile, which undoubtedly leaves a legacy,” the communal chief said. In history he will be left for what happened on September 11 of ’73, but in the history of Constitution he will also be left for his legacy as a doctor in the hospital for many years; by his heart, his great social sense, of helping people without asking for anything in return; and, personally, for teaching me many things to face life from the moment I met him,” Valenzuela said, according to the doctor’s account, when he opened the doors of independence hall, where Allende had locked himself, and saw him in the right moments: sitting in an armchair, with his back to the wall, the President held a rifle whose gun pressed his chin , a dry shot, part of the skull and hisses flew through the air,” ciper’s 2011 note notes.

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