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| | Costa Rica Daily Online News Magazine |
 | | Pavez was the most important of the Communist trade union leaders, given the fact that the Colegio de Profesores, one of the largest unions in Chile, represents the 120,000 educators in the country's 9,000 public, or publicly-subsidised private, primary and secondary schools. |
 | | Chile's Communists were the main promoters of the alliance with Socialists, Social Democrats, and left-leaning Christian Democrats that gave rise to the Popular Unity movement, whose Socialist candidate, Salvador Allende, won the presidency in the 1970 elections. |
 | | Marín was the party's presidential candidate in the 1999 elections, in which she won just 3.19 percent of the votes, half of the share gained six years earlier by Pizarro. |
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