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JUANI COLQUE was an activist with the Popular Unitary Action Movement and worked as a chemical analyst in the animal food factory Ralston Purina.
“That fateful morning on September 11, I arrived as best I could to my workplace, Ralston Purina in Limache, the first company to be nationalised, by [Salvador] Allende’s regime.
“Before 7am the marines were already occupying the train station. Fortunately, a relative took us through roads, almost unsuitable for vehicles, to the factory.
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