- Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)
Infobox_Political_Party
party_name = Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria
"Revolutionary Left Movement"
colorcode = #FF0000
party_
foundation = 1965| ideology =Marxism-Leninism Communism Scientific socialism
website = http://www.chile-mir.org/Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (Spanish "Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria") is a
Chile anpolitical party founded onOctober 12 ,1965 . The group emerged from various student organizations and established a base of support among the trade unions and shantytowns of Santiago.Andrés Pascal Allende , a nephew ofSalvador Allende , president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, was one of its early leaders.Miguel Enríquez Espinosa was the General Secretary of the party between 1967 and his assassination in 1974 by theDINA .MIR considered itself a revolutionary
vanguard party and advocated a Marxist-Leninist model ofrevolution in which it would lead theworking class to a "dictatorship of the proletariat ".Although MIR built up small arsenals of light arms, it supported rather than opposed the presidency of Salvador Allende and his
People's Unity coalition. Nationwide unrest andpolitical polarization escalated, as didleft-wing andright-wing violence. Before 1973, the organization may have staged few attacks compared to itsurban guerrilla peers, but it did try to infiltrate the Chilean Armed Forces in anticipation of acoup d'état against Allende and discussed plans to replace the existing police and military with amilitia recruited from the Popular Front's supporters. In August 1973, it finally formed theRevolutionary Coordinating Junta (JCR) with otherSouth America n revolutionary parties (the Argentine ERP, the UruguayanTupamaros and the Bolivian National Liberation Army. However, the JCR never achieved real effectiveness.These factors may explain both the vigorous and brutal purges of armed forces personnel who were suspected of being sympathetic to Allende after
Augusto Pinochet 's 1973 coup d'état and theOperation Condor campaign ofstate terrorism staged throughout theSouthern Cone Fact|date=April 2007.During Pinochet's dictatorship, the group was responsible for several attacks on government personnel and buildings, including assassination attempts on Pinochet himself. The years 1980-1981 the MIR had a guerrila group in Neltume. According to the
Rettig Report , MIR leader Jecar Neghme was assassinated in 1989 by Chilean state agents [ [http://www.memoriaviva.com/Ejecutados/Ejecutados%20N/nehgme_cristi_jecar_antonio.htm Neghme Cristi Jecar Antonio] , "Memoria Viva" es icon ] .After Chile's return to democracy in 1990, the party was resurrected. It currently participates in the
Juntos Podemos Más coalition.Notable members
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Miguel Enríquez
*Andrés Pascal Allende
*Luciano Cruz
*Bautista van Schouwen
*Antonio Llidó Mengual
*Víctor Fernando Krauss
*Jorge Müller Silva
*Luis Fuentes Labarca (founder of "El Rebelde").References
External links
* [http://www.mir-chile.cl/ Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria website] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.chile-mir.org/ Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria website-Chile MIR] (in Spanish)
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