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Socialist Party pilgrimage will carry Camilo Escalona’s remains to Chile’s former National Congress

From Cooperativa · () Spanish

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  • The Chilean Socialist Party will carry Camilo Escalona’s remains in a walking procession from its Santiago headquarters to the former National Congress.
  • Escalona, a longtime Socialist leader, died at 71 after being hospitalized with prostate cancer.
  • His funeral will take place at Santiago’s General Cemetery on Sunday.

Camilo Escalona’s final journey through Santiago will take the form of a Socialist Party pilgrimage. A procession will carry the veteran politician’s remains on foot to Chile’s former National Congress, where he will lie in state for the rest of Saturday.

The procession will leave around midday from the party’s headquarters on Paris Street, following a morning of tributes at the same site. Socialist Party members and supporters will accompany the coffin through the capital before it reaches the former congressional building.

Escalona, the party’s secretary-general and a historic Socialist militant, died on Friday at Clínica Indisa in Providencia. He was 71 and had been hospitalized in an induced coma because of complicated prostate cancer.

The burial is scheduled for Sunday at Santiago’s General Cemetery. President Gabriel Boric paid tribute to Escalona and his generation, saying: "Thanks to Camilo Escalona and his generation, we are here."

Thanks to Camilo Escalona and his generation, we are here.

· Gabriel BoricThe Chilean president’s tribute to Escalona and his political generation.
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