Laura Allende

She was born in Tacna, then under Chilean rule, the youngest child of Salvador Allende Castro and Laura Uribe.

She later studied law at the Universidad de Chile in Valparaíso for four years, but never completed her degree.

While at the university, she joined the Chilean Socialist Party (PS), of which in time she would become a member of its central committee.

She also worked at the Copper Office (Departamento del Cobre) from 1955 to 1965, before launching her political career.

At that time, she already was showing the first symptoms of the lymphatic cancer that was to haunt her till the end of her life.