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Popular Unitary Action Movement
The Popular Unitary Action Movement or MAPU was a small leftist political party in Chile. It was part of the Popular Unity coalition during the government of Salvador Allende. MAPU was repressed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In this period, some of its most radical members formed the Movimiento Juvenil Lautaro, whose leaders where political prisoners during the dictatorship and with the return to democracy. Another faction of the former members of the party joined the social democratic Party for Democracy in 1987.
MAPU was first formed as a splinter group of the Christian Democrat Party of Chile on May 19, 1969. As time progressed, the party became increasingly radicalized and adopted Marxism.
Notable members assassinated under Pinochet
Rene Guillermo Aguilera Olivares
Hernaldo Aguilera Salas
Carlos Enrique Alcayaga Varela
Jose Rufino Cordova Croxato
Nelson Jorge Flores Zapata
Oscar Armando Gomez Farias
Roberto Dario Hernandez Andrade
Jose Gregorio Hernandez Andrade
Lincoyan Carlos Huenul Lopez
Jorge Andres Lamana Abarzua
Pedro Meneses Brito
Leomeres Monroy Seguel
Miguel Angel Moyano Santander
Eugenio Ruiz-Tagle Orrego
Luis Onofre Saez Espinoza
Eduardo Toledo Cartes
Jorge Manuel Vasquez Matamala.
Oscar Vega Gonzalez.
Gabriel Gonzalo Vergara Munoz
Michael Roy Woodward Iriberri
Rettig report listing
Members who were victims of forced disappearaces by Pinochet's Secret Police
Lucio Hernan Angulo Carrillo
Levy Segundo Arrano Sancho
Juan Bautista Bastias Riquelme
Silvio Francisco Bettancourt Bahamondes
Rene Burdiles Almonacid
Raul Ivan Carcamo Aravena
Gaston De Jesus Cortes Valdivia
Luis Eduardo Duran Rivas
Luis Enrique Gonzalez Gonzalez
Reinaldo Luis Jeldres Riveros
Sergio Hernan Lagos Hidalgo
Alberto Leiva Vargas
Maria Cecilia Magnet Ferrero
Juan Bosco Maino Canales
Sergio Adrian Maureira Lillo
Jose Manuel Maureira Munoz
Rodolfo Antonio Maureira Munoz
Segundo Armando Maureira Munoz
Sergio Miguel Maureira Munoz
Jose Rosendo Perez Rios
Elizabeth Mercedes Rekas Urra (Aged 27. Forced Disappearance. Santiago May 1976)
Hector Patricio Vergara Doxrud
Rettig report listing
External links
Rettig Report or The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report (English Translation)
MAPU Memorial Website (Spanish language)
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