Mirella Latorre Blanco (26 March 1919 â€" 10 June 2010) was a Chilean
radio and television actress.The daughter of Mariano Latorre â€" a
famous writer, father of criollismo in Chile, and National Prize for
Literature winner â€" and Virginia Blanco, Mirella Latorre became
famous in the 1940s thanks to radio dramas, fame that was consolidated
with her move to television at the beginning of the 1960s.She had two
children with her first husband, Juan Emilio Pacull [es], the founder
of the Chilean Journalists Association. Her second husband was also a
journalist, Augusto Olivares [es], who died on 11 September 1973 at La
Moneda Palace during the coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet
against the socialist Salvador Allende.Mirella Latorre had to go into
exile; she traveled first to France and then to Cuba, where she worked
in television. She presented the program Conversando con Mirella
Latorre on the Tele Rebelde channel from 1976 to 1987. In 1991 she
began to travel to Chile, where she was definitively reinstated in
1995. In her last six years she suffered from senile dementia. In
general she was in good health, and although she did not recognize
people, "she was always very happy," recalled her friend and then
executive director of the Salvador Allende Foundation [es], Patricia
Espejo in 2010. She died of a heart attack at 10:00 at the Hospital
del Salvador [es] in Santiago on 10 June 2010, at age 91. Her remains
are, like those of her second husband, in the Cemetery of the Parque
del Recuerdo.
radio and television actress.The daughter of Mariano Latorre â€" a
famous writer, father of criollismo in Chile, and National Prize for
Literature winner â€" and Virginia Blanco, Mirella Latorre became
famous in the 1940s thanks to radio dramas, fame that was consolidated
with her move to television at the beginning of the 1960s.She had two
children with her first husband, Juan Emilio Pacull [es], the founder
of the Chilean Journalists Association. Her second husband was also a
journalist, Augusto Olivares [es], who died on 11 September 1973 at La
Moneda Palace during the coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet
against the socialist Salvador Allende.Mirella Latorre had to go into
exile; she traveled first to France and then to Cuba, where she worked
in television. She presented the program Conversando con Mirella
Latorre on the Tele Rebelde channel from 1976 to 1987. In 1991 she
began to travel to Chile, where she was definitively reinstated in
1995. In her last six years she suffered from senile dementia. In
general she was in good health, and although she did not recognize
people, "she was always very happy," recalled her friend and then
executive director of the Salvador Allende Foundation [es], Patricia
Espejo in 2010. She died of a heart attack at 10:00 at the Hospital
del Salvador [es] in Santiago on 10 June 2010, at age 91. Her remains
are, like those of her second husband, in the Cemetery of the Parque
del Recuerdo.
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