Manuel RodrÃguez Patriotic Front
The Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez ( FPMR ), also Frente Patriótico, is a leftist terrorist Chilean underground organization. She fought during the dictatorship of Pinochet against the military regime.
History
The Frente was founded in September 1980 by the people living in the Soviet Union in exile in Moscow Communist Party General Secretary, Luis Corvalán. The first action was a spectacular assassination of several high-voltage lines in 1983, in which a large part of the country was affected by the power failure.
On September 7, 1986 25 members of the group committed an assassination attempt on Pinochet, the this but unhurt survived.
After the Aylwin government decided in 1990 to release any resistance fighters against the dictatorship, which have been associated with violent crime, the FPMR as other groups decided, also, to continue their struggle.
On 1 April 1991 members of the FPMR shot to right-wing senator of the Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI ) Jaime Guzmán after a lecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Fidel Castro publicly supported the group after the assassination. In August 2005, the Argentine judiciary was free to therefore sought in Chile Galvarino Apablaza because Chile had presented no evidence of his guilt. Guerra was 1987-1990 Commander of the FPMR.
On November 9, 1991 hijacked a command of the Frente Patriótico Cristián Edwards, the son of the editor of the conservative, dominant newspaper El Mercurio. After 145 days, he was released on payment of one million dollars ransom.
On December 30, it was possible accomplices to free four convicted under the dictatorship bomber from prison. With a helicopter María Cristina San Juan, Pablo Muñoz Hoffman, Patricio Ortiz Montenegro and another prisoner were released from the high security prison. In September 1998, the Swiss government not to extradite the two fled there Liberated decided because Chile was not sufficient guarantees for the two.