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Left Wing Terrorism in Chile (view source)
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On December 30, 1980, MIR guerrillas wearing police uniforms <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>while conducting bank robberies in Santiago shoot and kill two carabinier NCOs, 31-year-old Corporal Washington Godoy Palma, and 27-year-old Corporal Daniel Alberto González Leiva.<ref>Historia Oral e Historia Política: Izquierda y Lucha Armada en América Latina, 1960-1990, Pablo Pozzi, LOM Ediciones, 2012</ref>
On December 30, 1980, MIR guerrillas wearing police uniforms <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>while conducting bank robberies in Santiago shoot and kill two carabinier NCOs, 31-year-old Corporal Washington Godoy Palma, and 27-year-old Corporal Daniel Alberto González Leiva.<ref>Historia Oral e Historia Política: Izquierda y Lucha Armada en América Latina, 1960-1990, Pablo Pozzi, LOM Ediciones, 2012</ref>
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 the attacks on three banks in the capital on December 30 in which Corporals Palma and González Leiva were shot dead and at least three civilians wounded.
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 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.