[Guardian] Margot Honecker, politician and widow of former East German leader Erich Honecker, has died in Chile at the age of 89, her family said.That right arm appears to have a bright future in 'Bodies - The Exhibition.'
Honecker, who had lived in the country since 1992, died at home in the capital, Santiago, on Friday.
She was a prominent member of the East German communist party and served as education minister under her husband, who ruled the country with an iron fist from 1971 until just before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
She defended her husband’s rule to the end, writing on the 10th anniversary of Germany’s reunification that: "In the east, we never knew social incertitude, need and misery. Now, monster money has taken the place of human relations.
"Xenophobia and neo-fascism are developing in the east. All that is explained by the recent past. The roots of this evil are inherent in the capitalist social order," she added in a book published in 2000, titled The Other Germany.
Erich Honecker died in Chile in 1994 of liver cancer.