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  ...The hand of the President rises, imponing silence. Then was heared the voice of the militar aide-de-camp saying: "What is our destiny now, President?".
 
From the anounced death of the President to the next destination position of the aides-de-camp. Was the opposite extremes of a same escenary where the vilenesses and nobilities of the human behaviour was measured.
 
- You must get out of here, because I can not warranty your security, so go back to your institutions. Its a order - said the President, finishing the meeting.
 
He extend his hand to shake theirs. A relief expression was drawed on the face of the uniformates. The commander Sanchez said that he gaved him a hug. He accompany them to the anteroom and gaved orders to the guarding for let them out the Palace.
 
Was then when the President must decided that the time for the goodbye has arrived. Each minute turns more improbable the posibility that any loyal radio could transmit his latest message to the citizenship. Maybe he took paper and pencil to draft the speech. No, he has no time. All indicates that he has no doubts about what and how he will must say. He open the door towards his private chamber and request a report about the radios that still were on the air. The radios Corporacion and Portales has been bombarded. Even radio Magallanes and radio Sargento Candelaria was suffering interferences, was what they told him.
 
He took place in his armchair and took the telephone that connects him to radio Magallanes. It past the 9.15 of the morning. He clear his throat and began to speak, with the deep serenity that only could give him to know for certain that has went through the barrier of the death, the fear to the death. He has been loved the life. Has come to this world equiped with a deep vocation for being happy and enjoy the pleasure. He loved the profound aesthetic gaved in the paint and the music, in the good food and the fine clothes, in the perfect squared of his chessboard, in the bright eyes of the loved woman, in the loyalty of his family and friends. And because he knows that aesthetic and ethic conforms the same great value, he has become socialist, aspiring to build a world without the ugliness of the injustice and the violence.
 
He loved the life and now he was at the edge of sacrify it. And his sacrifice was fully conscius, in a free act that makes him absolutely free. A plane to go to the exile?, renounce to the position with the gun in the chest and, with his renounce, consecrate an illegal sucessor that will run over the citizen liberties and rights conquered through the decades?. The offer has insulted him deeply. Accept it was betry him and betray the people that has believed in his project of democratic socialism. Accept it was transfer them a moral power that they will never have.
 
Two words must resound inside him: dignity and loyalty. In this way he wants to be remembered: like a man that know to be loyal. From his courage depends the aesthetical - ethical seal of this final act of his life. The decision was taken: he would be murdered by a coupist bullet or he will kill himself. Dead they will take out the President from La Moneda.
 
There he was, breathing quietly and spelling carefully every word. Thousands and thousands of speeches he was pronounced in squares and rooms of his fatherland since, at twentynine years old, he presented him as candidate to deputy. Now he has sixty five years, and this was his final speech.
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"My friends, this will be the last time that I could speak to you. The Air Force has bombarded the towers of radio Portales and radio Corporacion. My words have not bitterness, but disappointment, and they will be the moral punishment to those who has betrayed the swear that has did it...soldiers of Chile, In Chief Commanders, the Almiral Merino that has been selfdesigned, but mister Mendoza, general despicable that just yesterday state his fidelity and loyalty to the governement, has also self nominated General Director of Carabineros (Police)".
 
"Before this facts, I just can say to the workers: I will not renounce. Being located in an historical juncture, I will pay with my life the loyalty of the people. And I say to you, that I have the certenty, that the seed that we delivered to the dignous conscious of thousands and thousands of chileans, will not can be mowed definitively".
 
"The have the strenght. They could dominate us. But the social processes will not be stopped neither with the force nor the crime. The history is ours and is made by the people".
 
"Workers of my fatherland, I am grateful by the loyalty that you always had. The trust that you deposit in a man that only was interpreter of greatest eagers of justice. That gave his word in that respect the constitution and the law, and so he did it. In this definitive moment, the last that I could refer to you, I want that you learn the lesson. The foreign capital, the imperialism, united to the reaction, created the climate for the Militar Forces to broke their tradition, that has been teached by Schneider and reafirmed by the commander Araya, victims of the same social sector that today will be in their houses, waiting with somebody else's hand reconquer the power to keep defending their profits and privilegies".
 
"I speak, above all, to the modest woman of our land, to the peasant that believed in us, to the labourer that work harder, to the mother that know about our concern by the children".
 
"I speak to the fatherland professionals, to the patriotic professionals, to they who since days ago were working against the sedition sponsored by the Professional Associations, associations of class to defend the advantages of a capitalist society that gave to a few ones".
 
"I speak to the youth, to those who sang, gave their happiness and fighting spirit. I speak to the man of Chile, to the worker, the peasant, the intelectual, to those who will be pursued...because in our country the fascism has been since many hours ago present, in the terrorist outrages, blowing up bridges, cutting the railways, destroying the oil and gas pipelines, in front of the silence of those who have the obligation to proceed: they were obliged. The history will judge them".
 
"Certainty, radio Magallanes will be silenced and the quiet metal of my voice will not reach you. It does not matter. You will keep hearing it. I will always be with you. At least, my remember will be of a worthy man, that was loyal to the loyalty of the workers".
 
"The people knows how to defend him self, but must no sacrifice him. The people must no let him raze to the ground, neither riddle with bullets; but neither degradate him".
 
"Workers of my fatherland: I have faith in Chile and his fate. Other men will surpass this moment shade and bitter, where the betray pretends prevail. You must keep knowing that, more earlier than later, the large avenues where the free man will pass, to build a better society".
 
"¡Viva Chile!, ¡Viva el pueblo!, ¡Vivan los trabajadores!. These are my last words and I have the certainty that my sacrifice will not be in vain. I have the certainty that, at least, will be a moral lesson that will punish the felony, the cowardliness and the betray".
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A startled silence floated in the air when the President finish his speech. The last speech...
 

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(*Note: My english is not so good. I will appreciate deeply any colaboration to correct the failures in this text - Christian F. Leal Reyes).