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The next day, a policeman (carabineer Luis Merino Ferreira) is killed in a clash with guerrillas.
The next day, a policeman (carabineer Luis Merino Ferreira) is killed in a clash with guerrillas.
On 11 August 1970, MIR guerrillas shoot and kill a police NCO, Corporal Luis Fuentes Pineda).
On 11 August 1970, MIR guerrillas shoot and kill a police NCO, Corporal Luis Fuentes Pineda.
On 21 September 1970, guerrillas shoot and kill another police NCO, Corporal Armando Cofré López, during a bank robbery in the suburb of Irarrázabal in Santiago
On 21 September 1970, guerrillas shoot and kill another police NCO, Corporal Armando Cofré López, during a bank robbery in the suburb of Irarrázabal in Santiago
On 24 May 1971, VOP Marxist guerrillas in an armed robbery of a bank money transfer van shoot and mortally wound a policeman (Corporal José Arnaldo Gutiérrez Urrutia) and wound two accompanying Miramar supermarket employees.
On 24 May 1971, VOP Marxist guerrillas in an armed robbery of a bank money transfer van shoot and mortally wound a policeman (Corporal José Arnaldo Gutiérrez Urrutia) and wound two accompanying Miramar supermarket employees.
In June 1971, VOP guerrillas killed Edmundo Perez Zujovic, a Christian Democrat and former interior minister.
That same month, another marxist guerrilla (46-year-old Heriberto Salazar) of the VOP walked into police headquarters in Santiago with a sub-machinegun and kills three detectives (Gerardo Romero Infante, Heriberto Mario Marín and Carlos Pérz Bretti) before blowing himself up with dynamite, and a carabineer corporal (Jorge Cartes) is killed by MIR guerrillas in the MIR stronghold of Concepción.
On 1 December 1971, 50,000-200,000 women took to the streets of Santiago to protest against Salvador Allende’s ''Unidad Popular'' government. Their peaceful march turns ugly when leftists attacked the women with rocks. However, their ''Marcha de las Cacerolas Vacías'' (March of the Empty Pots) signaled the beginning of a massive coordinated anti-Allende movement. To keep the memory alive of the march, women in the middle-class and affluent suburbs of Santiago banged on pots every night for two hours for several months.
On 1 December 1971, 50,000-200,000 women took to the streets of Santiago to protest against Salvador Allende’s ''Unidad Popular'' government. Their peaceful march turns ugly when leftists attacked the women with rocks. However, their ''Marcha de las Cacerolas Vacías'' (March of the Empty Pots) signaled the beginning of a massive coordinated anti-Allende movement. To keep the memory alive of the march, women in the middle-class and affluent suburbs of Santiago banged on pots every night for two hours for several months.