Source: Digital Journalist.
Former Chilean President Salvador Allende shot himself in the head with a gun on September 11, 1973 at the Palacio de La Moneda during the coup, but was wounded and one of his bodyguards had to give the coup de grace, it claims the Chilean writer and journalist Camilo Taufic.
The author made in an interview with Efe the results of research he has done in recent years and concludes with the argument that Allende's death was an "assisted suicide" .
The top manager Allende, according to inquiries Taufic was Enrique Huerta, Mayor of the Palace and member of the president's personal guard, called 'GAP' (Group of Friends of the Chair), in an "act of human solidarity and politics."
This version of the last moments of the President of the Unidad Popular (UP) differs from the most popular so far, accepted even by the family, which holds that Allende was killed when fired on the chin with an assault rifle AK-47 that had given Cuba's Fidel Castro.
To Taufic, a journalist since 1958, this explanation is due to a plan devised by the military coup to occur Allende "holding a Russian weapon, a gift from a head of state, with which you shoot in defense of his government, linking the failure of the peaceful and armed means to socialism."
General Javier Palacios, presented as the officer who commanded the assault on La Moneda, convinced a group of doctors who accompanied the president to present his death as suicide without any assistance provided to substantiate that the weapon used was a rifle donated by the Cuban revolutionary leader.
"Palacios convinced that it was more decent and dignified history that everybody said he committed suicide with a submachine gun Fidel Castro," said Taufic, who also ensures that the general did not lead the assault on the presidential palace, but who arrived there later to "fix the presentation" of the death of Allende.
According to the writer, all the doctors agreed Palacios plan to "dignify" the president's death but one: Danilo Bartulin, who lives in Cuba. Bartulin Allende had conspired to give the coup de grace if was left badly injured or have a problem, but the key moment the doctor was with the president, said Taufic.
Another doctor, Patrick Gihon, said he witnessed the moment when Allende was flying head with a machine gun in the room 'Independence' of La Moneda. The doctor has told repeatedly that the president was fired when he returned to the second floor of the palace to take his gas mask as a souvenir, something which Taufic is "a totally absurd pretext."
Taufic The first argument to thwart the suicide with the AK-47 given by Castro is that the gun was not in La Moneda Allende but kept it like a trophy in his home in El Canaveral, located on the foot of the Andes. The reporter says it has the direct testimony of Victor Pey English and Joan Garcés, personal assistants Allende, who frequented the residence of the president of Chile.
Taufic inclines to the view that Allende shot himself with a pistol, according to eyewitnesses, kept in a desk drawer. Strengthens this possibility a 2008 report of the forensic expert Luis Ravanal, which detected anomalies in the analysis of Allende's autopsy and concluded that the skull had two bullet wounds of different caliber weapons.
According to the report, there is an inlet in the right eyebrow and a round exit at the back of the cranial vault that do not match with a shot fired by a rifle but could correspond to a pistol or a revolver. The coroner also confirmed that the body had been shot larger gauge on the chin that shattered his skull, but said that was done at close range, not at close range, as indicated by the official thesis of suicide.
Based on these forensic evidence, Taufic claims that Allende was wounded after shooting himself under the eye with a gun. Later, Enrique Huerta, one of his loyal bodyguards, finished him off with a rifle shot that shattered his skull, and also fulfilled the promise he had made his closest collaborators that would not let him fall alive into the hands of the military .
According Taufic, some eyewitnesses have stated that Huerta Allende came to office, he heard a gunshot and went "crying, mad, saying he had killed the president." "No one should interpret that Allende was killed by a GAP, Huerta completed suicide as an act of human solidarity and political relationship with its president," says Taufic.
Huerta and others close to Allende who defended themselves when attacked the presidential palace were arrested the same day of the coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The soldiers were transferred a military compound near Santiago, where they were tortured and shot on September 13, 1973.
Allende's death was put back on the table on 26 January with the decision of the Chilean Justice officially investigate 726 cases of human rights violations so far unknown , among which the president.
Taufic, author of several 'best sellers', pleaded aware that the version on this controversial episode in the recent history of Chile may cause a stir, but was confident that the ongoing criminal investigation "will bring to light the truth "and put an end to some" absurd versions of murder. "
His book 'Chile at the Stake. Snapshot Military Coup', edited in Buenos Aires February 1974, is considered the first global uncensored story published on the subject worldwide.
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