Career
Her grandfather was a first cousin of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973. Paula worked as a humanitarian for impoverished communities located in Venezuela and Spain, using her skills as an educator and psychologist. Paula was only 29 when she died in 1992.
She went into a coma after complications of porphyria had hospitalised her.
In 1991, an error in medication resulted in severe brain damage, leaving her in a persistent vegetative state. Her mother had her moved to a hospital in California and later to her home where she died on 6 December 1992.
Her autobiographical book Paula is dedicated to her.
