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O’Higgins the Liberator Returns to the People

Chile’s redheaded revolutionary has finally been returned to the people whom he struggled so fiercely to free. On March 9, the remains of Bernardo O’Higgins, the Irish-South American liberator, were returned to the location in downtown Santiago where they lay until they were removed in 1973 by the military dictator General Augusto Pinochet.


 
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