Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) (Movement of the Revolutionary Left) is a Chilean political party. The group emerged from various student organziations in the late 1960s and established a base of support among the trade unions and shantytowns of Santiago. Andrés Pascal Allende, a nephew of Salvador Allende, president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, was one of its early leaders. Satellite image of Santiago Santiago (full form Santiago de Chile) is the capital of Chile. ... Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens1 (July 26, 1908–September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from 1970 until his death during a violent military coup détat. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...

MIR considered itself a revolutionary vanguard and avocated a Marxist-Leninist model of revolution in which it would lead the working class to a "dictatorship of the proletariat". Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ...

Although MIR built up small arsenals of light arms, it never undertook violent actions during Allende's term in office. However, the organization did try to infiltrate the Chilean Armed Forces in anticipation of a military coup d'état against Allende. This is may explain the vigorous and brutal purges of armed forces personnel who were suspected of being sympathetic to Allende after Augusto Pinochet came to power in September, 1973. A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military government that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ...

During Pinochet's rule, the group was responsible for several terrorist attacks on government personnel and buildings, including assassination attempts on the dictator himself. They were unpopular with the majority of Chileans, including the democratic opposition who felt that MIR's actions gave Pinochet an excuse to tighten military control over the country in the name of anti-Communism.-1...

After Chile's return to democracy in 1990, the party was resurrected.

External link

• Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria website (http://www.mir-chile.cl/) (in Spanish)

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