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On September 4, 1970, when Chileans elected as president Salvador Allende Gossens a Marxist, the MIR decided to carry out his socialist reforms by force. In December 1971, Chilean women organized the highly successful ''March of the Empty Pots'' in Santiago to protest against Allende. Thousands of women —  numbers vary from 15,000 to 50,000 —  marched through the streets of the Chilean capital Santiago, banging empty pots and pans and yelling slogans against the Socialist reforms.<ref>[http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02174-8.html Right-Wing Women in Chile]</ref>

On September 4, 1970, when Chileans elected as president Salvador Allende Gossens a Marxist, the MIR decided to carry out his socialist reforms by force. In December 1971, Chilean women organized the highly successful ''March of the Empty Pots'' in Santiago to protest against Allende. Thousands of women —  numbers vary from 15,000 to 50,000 —  marched through the streets of the Chilean capital Santiago, banging empty pots and pans and yelling slogans against the Socialist reforms.<ref>[http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02174-8.html Right-Wing Women in Chile]</ref>

The leftists violence and civilian protests against Allende resulted in the military coup led by General [[Augusto Pinochet]] on September 11, 1973 who largely defeated the marxist guerrillas and left-wing radicals hidden among the civilian population through detentions, disappearances and counterinsurgency warfare.<ref>"In 1970, when Chile elected as president Salvador Allende a Marxist, the MIR decided to implement his policies by force. This prompted a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet who struck a blow against the Left from which the MIR never recovered." World Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Political Violence from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 Era, James Ciment, p. 196, Routledge, 2015</ref> In late 1974, [[Andrés Pascal Allende]], nephew of the late president Allende Gossens, assumed leadership of the remnants of the MIR and continued to attack military and civilian targets.

The leftists violence and civilian protests against Allende resulted in the military intervention of the Armed Forces and the Police on September 11, 1973 and the [[Military Government (Chile)|Military Government]] of General and President [[Augusto Pinochet]] who largely defeated the marxist guerrillas and left-wing radicals hidden among the civilian population through detentions, disappearances and counterinsurgency warfare.<ref>"In 1970, when Chile elected as president Salvador Allende a Marxist, the MIR decided to implement his policies by force. This prompted a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet who struck a blow against the Left from which the MIR never recovered." World Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Political Violence from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 Era, James Ciment, p. 196, Routledge, 2015</ref> In late 1974, [[Andrés Pascal Allende]], nephew of the late president Allende Gossens, assumed leadership of the remnants of the MIR and continued to attack military and civilian targets.

==Guerrilla warfare==

==Guerrilla warfare==