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Left Wing Terrorism in Chile (view source)
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==Terrorism in the 1970s==
==Terrorism in the 1970s==
Between August 1969 and September 1970, MIR Marxist guerrillas operating in Santiago carried out 12 armed robberies of banks and businesses to finance their operations.
According to police records submitted to the Chilean senate, leftists illegally occupied 1,458 farms between November 1970 and December 1971.
On 5 February 1970, Left Wing Radical Pedro Lenin Valenzuela attempts to hijack a plane and take it to Cuba. In the resulting gunfight at the Chilean International Airport, a flight attendant, Scarlet Burgos and a detective are wounded. Valenzuela is killed in the return fire.
On 5 February 1970, Left Wing Radical Pedro Lenin Valenzuela attempts to hijack a plane and take it to Cuba. In the resulting gunfight at the Chilean International Airport, a flight attendant, Scarlet Burgos and a detective are wounded. Valenzuela is killed in the return fire.