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Left Wing Terrorism in Chile (view source)
Revision as of 01:07, January 7, 2017
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In the last week of August 1986, guerrillas operating in Santiago and Valparaíso detonate 13 bombs and kill a police officer and wound 4 soldiers near the National Stadium.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19860430&id=Cl5WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DfADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2849,9234595&hl=en Bomb blasts wall at U.S. Embassy compound in Chile]</ref>And in the suburb of Puente Alto in Santiago, five leftists try to set fire to a bus, shooting and killing the driver, Francisco Guzmán Núñez, who opposed them.<ref>[http://www.todoporchile.com/noticias/recordando.htm Reordando]</ref>
In the last week of August 1986, guerrillas operating in Santiago and Valparaíso detonate 13 bombs and kill a police officer and wound 4 soldiers near the National Stadium.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19860430&id=Cl5WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DfADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2849,9234595&hl=en Bomb blasts wall at U.S. Embassy compound in Chile]</ref>And in the suburb of Puente Alto in Santiago, five leftists try to set fire to a bus, shooting and killing the driver, Francisco Guzmán Núñez, who opposed them.<ref>[http://www.todoporchile.com/noticias/recordando.htm Reordando]</ref>
On 11 September 1987, leftists destroy a police vehicle in a bomb attack in Santiago, killing two carabiniers.
On 20 January 1988, a bomb planted by MIR guerrillas in the Capredena Medical Center in Valparaiso kills a 65-year-old female pensioner (Berta Rosa Pardo Muñoz) and wounds 15 other women.
On January 26 1988, MIR guerrillas plant a bomb in a house in La Cisterna, killing 42-year-old Major Julio Eladio Benimeli Ruz, commander of the carabiniers special operations group.
In June 1988, MIR guerrillas conduct a series of bombings in Santiago, damaging several banks. That month, FPMR guerrillas kill 43-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Miguel Eduardo Rojas Lobos of the Chilean Army, after he had parked his car in the Santiago suburb of San Joaquín.
On 10 July 1989, 26-year-old Corporal Patricio Rubén Canihuante Astudillo of the Chilean Police is shot in the head at point-blank range while he guarded a building in Viña del Mar.
In December 1989, Canadian police report that 30 Brazilian business executives had been targeted for abduction by MIR guerrillas that included two Canadians, Christine Lamont and David Spencer who had joined the guerrilla movement after meeting two Chilean exiles, Sergeo Olivares and Martin Urtubia, who arrived in Canada in 1978.
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