"Anti-Fascist" banner of the Communist MIR regime in Chile in the 1970's...MIR kidnapped and murdered policemen...just like Democrats in the US today.

The2ndAmendment

Gold Member
Feb 16, 2013
13,383
3,656
245
In a dependant and enslaved country.
At time = 36 seconds in the video link, you will see "ANTI FASCIST" spelled out on a banner behind the Communist Dark Lord Miguel Enriquez



MIR also advocated a Marxist-Leninist model of revolution in which it would lead the working class to a “dictatorship of the proletariat (laboring class)”. MIR radical ideology birthed hatred against the Republic of Chile and those who represented it. MIR on September of 1967 created violent clashes between MIR-led students from the University of Concepción and the riot police. One incident involved the Carabineros who were seeking to arrest those responsible for destroying a police vehicle, but students reorganized and kidnapped carabinier Héctor Gutiérrez Orellana. They kidnapped a police officer to show their defiance against the government of Chile.

MIR were also involved in guerrilla operations and carried out 12 armed robberies of banks and businesses between August 1969 and September 1970 to finance their operations. As well carried out many terrorist attacks against Chileans who opposed communism. MIR bomb attacks took place in various parts of the country that targeted, among others, the U.S. consulate, the Chilean-American Institute in Rancagua, the main office of the Christian Democratic Party, the office of Chile’s largest-selling El Mercurio newspaper and the residence of senator Francisco Bulnes of the National Party.

Not everyone at MIR was die hard, but many were radical and had a terrorist nature for the cause of communism. At the same time MIR had a peaceful front marketed as a peaceful movement.

When Allende came to the scene The Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) were absolved of criminal charges under an amnesty under the Popular Unity (Unidad Popular or UP) government of Allende and was allowed to operate again openly, encouraging and carrying out illegal expropriations of farms and businesses, and assaulting outspoken conservatives/rightist members of the public and security forces.

This is when the Chilean people began begging to the Chilean armed forces to do something about the violence. What sparked the Chilean military to get involved was the Marcha de las Cacerolas Vacías (March of the Empty Pots) signaled the beginning of a massive coordinated anti-Allende movement. On December 1, 1971, 50,000-200,000 women took to the streets of Santiago, Chile the capital to protest against Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular government. The women alongside their children shouted the following.

“Chile has been, and will be, a nation that lives in liberty,” the women chanted.
“In Chile there is hunger! We do not want Castro here!”
Many of these brave women and their children who were with them. There were many of them who were injured, they were shot at with guns, the police used high‐pressure hoses from water trucks to douse the retreating demonstrators. There were grandmothers and young girls in slacks and blouses, teachers and housewives. Allende’s government sent the riot policemen, carrying plastic shields and visored helmets, began firing tear‐gas grenades, which exploded among the women. The police also fired a volley of grenades of tear gas to these peaceful protestors. There were many newspapers that reported this violence against the women including the New York Times. They even reported of MIR member violence against them and beat many of them physically. After this incident the cry of Chileans begging for the military to do something was even stronger.

Today Chile is the most powerful economy in South America and is a leader in many fronts. The Chicago Boys were a group of Chilean economists prominent around the 1970s and 1980s, the majority of whom trained at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger.
 

Forum List

Back
Top