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In February 1981, in a war communiqué sent to the various press agencies of Santiago, the MIR guerrillas claim to have carried out more than 100 successful operations during 1980, including bomb attacks against the main electricity towers on November 11, which caused widespread blackouts in Santiago and Valparaiso, and bomb attacks on three banks in the capital on December 30 in which a police officer was shot dead and at least three civilians wounded.

In February 1981, in a war communiqué sent to the various press agencies of Santiago, the MIR guerrillas claim to have carried out more than 100 successful operations during 1980, including bomb attacks against the main electricity towers on November 11, which caused widespread blackouts in Santiago and Valparaiso, and bomb attacks on three banks in the capital on December 30 in which a police officer was shot dead and at least three civilians wounded.

On July 6, 1981,a MIR terrorist, Carlos Bruit Gutiérrez, kills Chilean Army Sergeant-Major Carlos Enrique Tapia Barraza. Gutiérrez would later be pardoned and set free in an amnesty only benefiting the left.  

On July 6 1981, a MIR terrorist, Carlos Bruit Gutiérrez, shoots and kills Carlos Enrique Tapia Barraza of the National Intelligence Centre ('Central Nacional de Informaciones' or CNI) in the suburb of San Miguel. <ref>[https://historiapolitica.com/datos/biblioteca/lucha%20armada%20AL_goicovic%20donoso.pdf Pueblo, conciencia y fusil. El Movimiento de izquierda Revolucionaria MIR y la irrupción de la lucha armada en Chile (1965-1990)]</ref>Gutiérrez would later be pardoned and set free in an amnesty only benefiting the left.  

On July 15, 1981, MIR gunmen operating in the suburb of Ñuñoa, Santiago, shoot in the head and gravely wound a female police officer, Major Ingrid Olderock from the National Intelligence Directorate (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional or DINA). She would succumb to her wounds in 2001.

On July 15, 1981, MIR gunmen operating in the suburb of Ñuñoa, Santiago, shoot in the head and gravely wound a female police officer, Major Ingrid Olderock from the National Intelligence Directorate (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional or DINA). She would succumb to her wounds in 2001.