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"To govern is to educate and provide health to the people." Pedro Aguirre Cerda Our country is going through a moment in its history in which it struggles to unshackle itself from the old economic methods, autocratic and based on free competition, channeling its social life into a course of cooperation and well-being covering all social strata. To His Excellency the President of the Republic, the Socialist Party and its ministers, this is the fundamental significance of the Popular Front government, established by the people only a year ago; to reclaim the social wealth and the economic potential of the nation, control it, direct it, foster it in the service of all the inhabitants of the republic, without privileges nor exclusions. Also, and as a consequence, restore for the people, for the working man, his physical vitality, his virility and health, which were once his outstanding qualities; to reacquire the physiological capacity of a strong people, recover its immunity against epidemics; all of which will allow a better performance in national production while also providing a better disposition and spirit to live and appreciate life.

DISCURSO EN EL SENADO SOBRE LA FORMACIÓN DE LA UNIDAD POPULAR

DISCURSO EN EL SENADO SOBRE LA FORMACIÓNDE LA UNIDAD POPULAR ; SPEECH IN THE SENATE ON THE FORMATIONOF THE POPULAR UNITY

Salvador Allende, with self-ironical genius, made a verbal self-portrait that worked both as a cartoon and as a monument. His own physical death, projecting itself into immortality, was the argument of a joke that had his body as a support: "Fresh of a statue" it was jokingly said, referring to the historical transcendence Allende saw in himself. On the other hand, the political opposition, that was aiming to overthrow this government, used the malicious cartoon to build up an atmosphere that was functional to this overthrow that involved President Allend's death. This article proposes to put into evidence the wide-reaching presence of the image of Allende's death, both in his own speech and in the cartoons used by the media that participated in his overthrow. The paper also aims to show the symbolical transcendence of the President turned into myth and monument. ; Salvador Allende, con ingenio autoirónico, se retrató verbalmente como caricatura y monumento. Su propia muerte física, proyectándose en la inmortalidad, era el argumento de un chiste que tenía a su cuerpo como soporte: "carne de estatua" se decía, bromeando sobre la trascendencia histórica del personaje que veía en sí mismo. Por otra parte, la oposición, que buscaba el derrocamiento de su gobierno, utilizó la caricatura denostativa en la construcción de una atmósfera funcional al derrocamiento violento del gobierno que contemplaba la muerte del presidente Allende. El artículo se propone evidenciar la presenciade la imagen de la muerte de Allende, tanto en sus propios dichos como en las caricaturas que utilizaron los medios que participaron en su derrocamiento; así como señalar la trascendencia simbólica del presidente convertido en mito y monumento.