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Balmaceda, the look of a patriot (1x5)

Date de diffusion: Sept 30, 2007

The only telefilm dedicated to a president of the Republic was released and broadcast on Sunday, September 30, 2007. The story starts with the flight of Balmaceda through the streets of Santiago after the defeat of his troops in the Battle of Placilla until Arrive at the Embassy of Argentina where he is hidden and protected by Ambassador Uriburu, establishing a close relationship with his wife Leonor and the maid, Rufina. Locked up in his room, Balmaceda writes his political will after having made the decision to commit suicide on the day his term ends, on September 19, 1891. That is where the events that led to the political crisis of the Balmaced government began to be recounted. and that would trigger civil war.