Beatriz Allende

Beatriz Patricia Ximena Allende Bussi (,,  ; 8 September 1942 – 11 October 1977), also known as Tati Allende, was a Chilean Socialist politician, revolutionary and surgeon. She was the daughter of former president of Chile Salvador Allende and his wife, Hortensia Bussi.

Early life
She studied medicine at the University of Concepción from 1960 to 1962, and transferred to the University of Chile to complete her fourth year.

She was heavily involved in student politics at university, joining the Brigada Universitaria Socialista. Through this group, she met Renato Julio, who she married on the 6th of July, 1967. The relationship only lasted a few months.

Later, she married Cuban diplomat and agent Luis Fernández de Oña (also known as Rodolfo Gallart Grau), whom she met on a trip to Cuba in 1967.

Flight from Chile
When her father was elected as the president of Chile on 4 September 1970, Beatriz became his closest advisor and collaborator, networking with elements of the Chilean and international Left. During Pinochet's coup, she stayed with her father in La Moneda Presidential Palace, leaving only when President Allende ordered all women and children to evacuate. She was forced into exile with her mother, sisters, husband, and daughter Maya Alejandra Fernández Allende to Cuba. She was 8 months pregnant at the time with her son, Alejandro Salvador Allende Fernández.

Life in Cuba
While in exile, she served as executive secretary of an anti-imperialist solidarity committee: the Comité Chileno de Solidaridad Antiimperialista, in La Habana.

In 1977, she separated from Luis.

Death
Four years and one month after her father died and the 1973 Chilean coup d'état of Augusto Pinochet, she died by suicide with a firearm on October 11, 1977. The gun used was an Uzi gifted to her by Fidel Castro in 1971. Her body was buried in the Pantheon of Revolutionary Armed Forces in the Colon Cemetery in Havana.

Posthumous tributes
To defend her figure, the militants of the Progressive Party of Chile decided to bear her name organizing in the Tati Allende Progressive Women's Front.This was released on October 11, 2018, on the anniversary of her death, accompanied by a song in her tribute composed by Mónica Berríos.