View of a mural of Victor Jara, the Communist singer tortured and killed by the Pinochet regime. Jeremy Corbyn paid tribute to him at the weekend
JEREMY CORBYN hailed the successful “struggle for liberation” in Latin America at a festival in Wales this weekend.
Addressing a large crowd at the El Sueno Existe (The Dream Exists) festival in Machynlleth, the Labour leader was visibly moved when recalling his experience on a May Day march in Santiago shortly before the election of Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1970.
He recounted some of the achievements of Allende’s Popular Unity government in health, education, land reform and through the nationalisation of key industries such as copper before progress was halted by a US-backed military coup in 1973.
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