With the presence of the Algerian ambassador to Chile, Faiza Latrous Rahim, and representatives of the International Association of Friends of the Algerian Revolution, the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the revolution in that country was commemorated in the city of Santiago de Chile .
The meeting was inaugurated by Latrous Rahim, with a presentation on the struggle and resistance of the people of Algeria against the French imperialist invaders, events that finally gave rise to the independence of that country in 1962, and in which the Front of National Liberation had a fundamental participation in organizing and guiding the struggle.
In that sense, he also paid special tribute to the fighter, Frantz Fanon, for his contributions to the struggle of the National Liberation Front and the Algerian revolution, reported the Info Sur Global website.
Likewise, during the day the official highlighted the role of Algerian revolutionary diplomacy in the fight for the independence of her country, and at the same time highlighted the role that the Algerian government plays today, as a non-permanent member of the Security Council of the UN, in the defense of Palestine against the genocide in Gaza, as well as in the defense of the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence in Western Sahara.
The diplomat also recalled the important support that then-president Salvador Allende gave to the Algerian revolution.
On the same day, the international analyst and Venezuelan writer Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein also participated, who spoke about the influence of the values of the Algerian anti-colonial revolution on the social and political and independence movements of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the struggle Bolivarian independence movement on the American continent, remembering that this year also commemorates the two hundred years of the triumph of the liberating armies, organized by the liberator Simón Bolívar in Junín and in Ayacucho, which meant the final defeat of the Spanish colonialist army in South America.
Finally, the diplomat, together with the Secretary General of the International Association of Friends of the Algerian Revolution, Nacerredine Belgacem, presented a series of awards to the Friends of the Algerian Revolution, among which the revolutionary leader Salvador Allende, the murdered Commander Ernesto, “Che” Guevara, to the Federation of Students of the University of Chile (FECH) and university federations, to the Arab Migrant Community, and to Arturo Samir, a doctor exiled in Algeria after the 1973 coup against Allende, among others.
