Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez
The Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez (FPMR), also Frente Patriótico , is a left-wing, terrorist Chilean underground organization. She fought against the military regime during the Pinochet dictatorship .
history
The "Patriotic Front" was established in September 1980 by the Moscow exile in the Soviet Union living Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCH), Luis Corvalan , was founded. The first action was a spectacular assassination attempt on several high voltage lines in 1983, after which there were prolonged blackouts in large parts of the country.
On September 7, 1986, 25 members of the group carried out an attack on Pinochet, which, however, survived unharmed. As a result of this event, twelve of the guerrillas were tracked down by the Chilean secret police and illegally executed.
In 1987 the FPMR broke away from the PCCh. After the Aylwin government decided during the transition in Chile in 1990 not to release any resistance fighters against the dictatorship who were associated with violent crimes, the FPMR, like other groups, decided to continue their armed struggle.
On April 1, 1991, a four-man FPMR squad shot and killed the right-wing conservative senator and founder of the right-wing Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI) party, Jaime Guzmán , right in front of the Catholic University in the heart of Santiago. Fidel Castro publicly supported the group after the attack.
On November 9, 1991, a command of the Frente Patriótico kidnapped Cristián Edwards , the son of the editor of the market-dominant right-wing conservative newspaper El Mercurio . After 145 days he was released on payment of a $ 1 million ransom.
On December 30, 1996, accomplices succeeded in freeing the four FPMR members Pablo Muñoz Hoffman, Patricio Ortiz Montenegro, Mauricio Hernández Norambuena and Ricardo Palma Salamanca from a maximum security prison in Chile by helicopter. In September 1998 Switzerland decided not to extradite two liberated refugees who had fled there because Chile did not provide sufficient guarantees for legal proceedings against them.
In August 2005, the Argentine judiciary released Galvarino Apablaza , who was wanted in Chile for alleged responsibility for the assassination attempt on Jaime Guzmán , because the Chilean judiciary had provided no evidence of his guilt. Apablaza was the commander of the FPMR from 1987 to 1990. Ricardo Palma Salamanca, who fired the fatal shots on Guzmán and lived after his spectacular escape from the maximum security prison 22 years in the underground, was arrested in February 2018 in France, which he and his also the FPMR belonging partner after eight months of testing political asylum granted and did not extradite them to Chile.
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- ^ A b c David Rojas-Kienzle: France grants ex-guerrillas from Chile asylum. In: amerika 21 , November 8, 2018, accessed July 30, 2020.