he was related to salvador allende.fter my father left, the only person from the allende family that was in touch with my other constantly was the daughters that were my cousins. and then my mother, i will say that she married my stepfather because in chile, there was no divorce. they were "married", they started having sex. by the time salvador allende was president, my stepfather was ambassador in argentina. he would come every two months, more or less, to report to the government. so i got to see more of salvador allende while he was president, but not much as i was growing up. >> and so that day, the other september 11, 1973, where were you when salvador allende -- >> in santiago. it was a strange day because people were talking about a coup , but we did not know what it was. i tried to explain to americans, and it is hard for you to envision the possibility that the army would take over the government. that people would be arrested him and the people would be killed, tortured. that the president would die, that the