Isabel Allende on father's death: "That chapter is closed"

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SANTIAGO.- Isabel Allende, the daughter of former President Salvador Allende, has discarded the opinion of medical coroner Luis Ravanal, who claimed that the former Head of State's autopsy was not conclusive and indicated that President Allende had suffered two bullet wounds.

"It is a chapter that has ended (…).  It is fine if Doctor Ravanal wants to have that opinion, he can have it; but the Allende family has loyally sustained that which was indicated by the doctors who accompanied him (Salvador) up until the end", the deputy told Radio Cooperativa.

According to Isabel Allende, both she and her family place their absolute "trust and belief" in what the nine doctors who accompanied her father established: that the death of the former President was caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

"There were no soldiers on the second floor when President Allende died; there is no evidence to support it.  Furthermore, dismissing the word of all those who were with him at the time would be a very serious matter, and would make them suspects", asserted the deputy.