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===Paramilitary Marxist Terrorist groups and political persecution===
{{Main article|Left Wing Terrorism in Chile}}
[[File:Flag of the MIR - Chile.svg|250px|thumbnail|MIR Flag.]]
[[File:Bandera de la VOP.jpg|250px|thumbnail|VOP Flag.]]

The Left was creating paramilitary forces that were loyal to the Popular Unity project (even more than the President himselft) and not loyal to the Chilean citizenry, one of the groups was called MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left) these groups gone to farms and seized the land in the name of "the people" and killed the landowners and their families. Around 500 Chileans died in this [[Red Terror]].

The MIR killed seven in the three years of Allende's Popular Unity Regime. Five of them were members of the Carabineros (The Chilean Police), another second lieutenant of the same corps and the last was an agent of Investigations Police.The group called VOP (Organizated Vanguard of the People) assassinated the former Minister of the Interior and former Vice President of the government prior to the arrival of Allende, Edmundo Pérez Zujovic. The material authors of the assassination were the same terrorists who had been pardoned in Allende's first decree. 

The crimes committed during the violent occupations of farms were committed mostly by the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (MCR), a franchise of the MIR in the rural world. In this series of events, which were committed in many cases by members of the Socialist Party, the main political force in the government coalition, there are dramatic events. Perhaps the most shocking of all was that committed against the middle-aged woman Antonia Maechell Ricardi, owner of La Tregua de Valdivia who was abducted from her own home, raped by the MIR a situation that led to her suicide.

Similar crimes were committed throughout the country. More than 500 deaths among landowners and workers who defended them from the occupations are documented. All this in more than 300 violent occupations of farms.

Several businessmen were murdered when they refused to pay the "revolutionary" tax. An example is the case of Raúl Méndez Espinosa, dedicated to the industrial manufacture of sweets, beaten to death for refusing to give money to the terrorists.

Jorge Baraona Puelma, former congressman, died on April 30, 1971 of a heart attack after being evicted from his property and seeing his Nilahue de Colchagua farm occupied by officials of the Corporation of the Agriarian Reform.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://buenmuseo.blogspot.com/2019/05/allende-asesinatos-y-violencia-para.html|title=Allende, asesinatos y violencia para imponer el socialismo a sangre y fuego|date=May 23, 2019|publisher=Museo de la Buena Memoria|language=es|author=Juan E. Pflüger}}</ref>

Among the actions of the left-wing radicals of the MIR and the VOP, among which there were quite a few militants of the Socialist Party, the assassinations of members of other political parties also stand out. Thus Héctor Castilla, of the Christian Democracy, was assassinated in retaliation for the victory of his student associations in Chilean universities. Also Rolando Matús, a member of the National Party, was assassinated by socialist militants collaborating with the MIR. And the frustrated assassination of the Christian Democrat leader Patricio Aylwin, when he was giving a lecture in a gymnasium in the town of Curicó.

There were also attacks on critical media. Such as the assaults by members of the Socialist Party youths on radio stations linked to the newspaper El Mercurio, a newspaper that Allende managed to close.

In 1972, 4000 Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles were brought from Cuba and stored in the offices of the Socialist Party presided by Allende, using diplomatic pouches for their transportation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elpaisonline.cl/verdad-historica-new/1970-marxismo-al-poder/75-allende-asesinatos-y-violencia-para-imponer-el-socialismo-a-sangre-y-fuego|title=Allende, asesinatos y violencia para imponer el socialismo a sangre y fuego|author=Juan E. Pflüger|date=June 24, 2016|language=es}}</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/aprachile/status/1437017349631193089?lang=es]</ref>

[[File:Left Wing terrorists seizing land in Salvador Allende's Chile.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|Left Wing terrorists seizing land in the South of Chile. Note that one sign says "The poor are welcome, f**k the rich", with "Welcome" being mispeled in Spanish (which is ''Bienvenidos'').]]

The MCR (Revolutionary Peasant Movement) member, Gregorio José Liendo, also known as "Comandante Pepe", told the journalist Nena Ossa, in a personal interview with her in 1972, reproduced in her book "Allende, Thank You":<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2019/07/homenaje-al-comandante-pepe.html|title=Homenaje al Comandante Pepe|date=July 12, 2019|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s blog|language=es}}</ref>

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'''– Nena Ossa:''' What is your plan, in the short, medium or long term?

'''– "Commander Pepe":''' Take over the fields and towns of the south, violently if necessary, while in Santiago the MIR takes over the city and they come down to join us halfway.

'''– Nena Ossa:''' In other words, the goal is to 'take over' all of Chile violently. Don't you care if people die?

'''– "Commander Pepe":''' Of course, violently. A million Chileans have to die so that the people get involved with the revolution and it becomes a reality. With fewer deaths it will not work.<ref>{{cite book|title=Allende Thank You|publisher=Maye|author=Nena Ossa|date=2009|language=es|pages=on the back cover}}</ref>}}

This 1972 guerrilla generation was trained in the Punto Cero camp in Cuba, in [[Algiers]], [[Algeria]] and [[Libya]].

A typical phrase used by the far-left was "Momio to the wall, Momia to the mattress" (''Momio al paredón, Momia al colchón'') Momio reffers to conservatives, "to the wall" means execution and "Momia al colchón" means raping female conservatives. They also used the phrase "Enough of conciliating, it's time to fight back" (''Basta ya de conciliar, es la hora de luchar'') and other macabre expressions.

The Foreigners who entered the country illegally between 1970 and 1973, based on a report of the "Special Commission for Consultation on Security" of the Organization of American States (OAS), formed by delegates from the United States, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic, and presented to the twenty-first special session of 1974, where it said:
"The approximate number of foreigners illegally entering Chile, could be estimated in September 1973, between 12 and 15 thousand individuals."
It adds: "After September 11 and up to the following March, more than 3,500 foreigners left Chile as asylum seekers, refugees or expelled".<ref name=NiVerdadNiReconciliacion/>