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THIS week marked the 50th anniversary of the historic election of Salvador Allende to the presidency of Chile, as well as the 47th of the bloody coup that overthrew and killed him.
I was delighted to be joined by Jeremy Corbyn, friend to the Latin American left — in particular in Chile — in Finsbury Park.
In this interview, we discuss his time spent in Chile in the build-up to the 1970 presidential election, asking him what Allende’s victory meant for the left across Latin America and the world at the time.
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