María Isabel Allende Bussi (US: /ɑːˈjɛndeɪ, -di/,[1][2] UK: /æˈ-, aɪˈɛn-/,[3][4] Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ⓘ; born 18 January 1945) is a Chilean politician.

On 11 September 1973, the day of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, Allende was the last person to enter the presidential palace.

After the military began to bomb the presidential palace, and the outcome was already clear, her father Salvador Allende ordered the women to leave.

[6] Isabel obtained political asylum in Mexico, with her mother and her sister Beatriz, where she spent sixteen years in exile, before returning to Chile in 1989, in the final stretch of the military regime.

[11] She has also worked for the passage of bills on gender identity, the water code, and creation of a government service for biodiversity and environmental protection.