50th Anniversary of U.S. Coup in Chile

Significance of Allende Monument in Montreal

Photo of the sculpture by Michel de Broin in honour of Salvador Allende unveiled on Montreal’s l’Île Notre-Dame on September 11, 2009. Many Chilean Montrealers and opponents of the Pinochet dictatorship gathered at the site for the sculpture’s inauguration.

The sculpture is of a tree that has become rooted at each extremity and bent into an arch, serving as an open metaphor that evokes Allende’s words in his very last speech on September 11, 1973, on Radio Magallanes, when he said: “I am certain that the seeds we have planted in the noble consciousness of thousands of Chileans can never be prevented from bearing fruit. Our enemies are strong and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History belongs to us …

(Photo by François Pesant. Archives de la Ville de Montréal).

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