Luis Corvalán

Luis Corvalán Lepe ( born September 14, 1916 in Puerto Montt, † July 21, 2010 in Santiago de Chile; born Luis Corvalán Nicolás Lépez ) was a Chilean politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile.

Life

Luis Corvalán 1932 entered the age of fifteen at the end of the dictatorship of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo in the city of Chillán of the Communist Party of Chile to. Trained as a teacher, he worked from 1952 in the Politburo of the Party, from 1958 as Secretary General. At the time of the ban of the party 1948-1958 Corvalán was detained in prison camps of the city Pitrufquén as of Pisagua. Under his leadership, the party then advocated a popular front policy and was instrumental in the Unidad Popular with.

After the coup Pinochet September 11, 1973 Luis Corvalán was arrested and transported to the concentration camp Ritoque on the island Dawson. After the murder of Víctor Jara, he was the most prominent political prisoners in Chile. In an international solidarity campaign for his release was demanded. On 18 December 1976, he was replaced in Zurich against the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky and found asylum in the Soviet Union, where he was awarded the Lenin Prize, among others. From here he founded the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez.

1988, the end of the Pinochet dictatorship, he returned to Chile. He lived until his death in a small house in Santiago de Chile and was the center of a large family. His most recent book The Communists and democracy appeared in 2008. He pleaded therein for a company on the basis of a new social movement and calls for, among other things, the re-nationalization of the Chilean copper mines. He was a member until his death at the KP Central Committee.

Publications

  • Freedom for Chile! Publisher Marxist leaves, Frankfurt 1973.
  • Luis Corvalán, Eduardo Labarca: Communist policy in Chile. Interviews with the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Chile. Publishing to the study of the labor movement, West Berlin in 1973.
  • Eduardo Labarca: Luis Corvalán - fighter for the cause of the people. APN Publishing House, Moscow 1975.
  • From my life. Dietz -Verlag, Berlin 1978.
  • The collapse of Soviet power. Dietz -Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-320-01909-0.
  • Conversations with Margot Honecker on the other Germany. The New Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00950-9.
  • Luis Corvalán, Klaus Huhn ( ed.): The other September 11. The murder of Allende and thousands of Chileans 30 years ago. Spotless -Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-933544-80-7.
  • The Communists and democracy., 2008.
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