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Left Wing Terrorism in Chile (view source)
Revision as of 22:41, January 3, 2017
, 22:41, January 3, 2017→Terrorism in the 1980s
On 30 December 1980, MIR guerrillas 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 30 December 1980, MIR guerrillas 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 operations carried out between June and November 1981, Chilean Army units destroy two MIR bases in the mountains of Neltume, capturing large ammunition caches and killing several guerrillas.<ref>"On 14 September 1981, during attempts to set up bases within Chile and to create a liberated zone in the Neltume, Valdivia region in southern Chile, seven MIR fighters were killed by police." Historical Dictionary of Terrorism, Stephen Sloan, Sean K. Anderson, p. 447, Scarecrow Press, 2009</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 11 November, which caused widespread blackouts in Santiago and Valparaiso, and bomb attacks on three banks in the capital on 30 December in which a police officer was shot dead and at least three civilians wounded.
On 14 September 1981, during attempts to establish an operations base in Neltume, southern Chile, seven MIR fighters were killed in clashes with the police.<ref>"On 14 September 1981, during attempts to set up bases within Chile and to create a liberated zone in the Neltume, Valdivia region in southern Chile, seven MIR fighters were killed by police." Historical Dictionary of Terrorism, Stephen Sloan, Sean K. Anderson, p. 447, Scarecrow Press, 2009</ref>
On 19 September 1981, army private Víctor Manuel Silva Nahuelpan is killed during counterinsurgency operations in the Neltume area.
In November 1981, MIR guerrillas kill three members of the Investigative Police in an ambush, and also attempt to assassinate Supreme Court President [[Israel Bórquez Montero]].
In further operations carried in November 1981, units of the Chilean Army destroy two MIR bases in the Neltume mountains, capturing large ammunition depots in the process.
In revenge attacks, MIR militants carry out twenty-three bomb attacks during March and April 1982.
In revenge attacks, MIR militants carry out twenty-three bomb attacks during March and April 1982.