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"a la revolucion no se la lleva en los labios para vivir de ella, sino en el corazon para morir por ella"

Miguel Enríquez Espinosa  March 27, 1944 - October 5, 1974 was a physician and one of the founders of the Chilean political party and left-wing organization Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria), founded 1965. He was General Secretary of the MIR between 1967 and his death in 1974.

The MIR was founded in 1965 by a union of leftist student groups, primarily in Santiago. They primarily took their inspiration from the Cuban Revolution, which they hoped to replicate in Chile. They soon found some support in Santiago's poor and working-class neighborhoods and among unions. The most important leader was the charismatic Miguel Enríquez (1944-1974), a tireless, idealistic doctor who served as the MIR's General Secretary and led the political-military resistance of MIR against the newly established dictatorship.

After the coup d'état by the armed forces against Allende's government on Tuesday 11 September 1973, Miguel was one of the main guerrilla leaders that remained after many fled the country. This proved to be a precarious existence and Miguel was killed in a gun fight with agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (National Intelligence Directorate) in the slum home where he was carrying out his clandestine operations.  

Enríquez and other members of the MIR refused to accept political asylum in foreign embassies and rejected a condition of exile outside their country – considering the act of fleeing for personal security a form of betrayal to their socialist cause. Instead, they insisted on leading the revolution.
 
One of the first and major undertakings of Army Intelligence DINA was to exterminate by all means the leadership of the MIR. The MIR became of particular concern to Pinochet because it  had no formal organization framework and relied on cells; much of its activities were unpredictable and irregular in nature; they had also managed to infiltrate the Chilean Armed Forces. The MIR became the object of Pinochet’s paranoia. As a result between 1973-1976 most of its young leaders like Miguel Enriquez and Bautista van Schouwen Vasey were killed. The Rettig report (Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation) emphasized the repression against the MIR.

After a year of Enríquez operating in clandestinity, Pinochet's secret police, the DINA uncovered his safe-house in the working class district of San Miguel in Santiago. On October 5, 1974 his house was surrounded by far-right terrorists, DINA agents backed by heavily armed security forces personnel with an armored personnel carrier and a helicopter. He was wounded in the beginning of the assault covering the retreat of his pregnant wife (Carmen Castillo, also wounded) and two other men that fled. He received ten bullet wounds, including one to the head. There are no reliable sources that prove he was armed when murdered.
He is buried in the Cementerio General de Chile in Santiago and the medicine faculty of the Superior Institute of Medicine of La Habana, Cuba, has been named in his honor.

The MIR and the case against Pinochet:
Relatives and friends of the MIR members assassinated by the Pinochet regime filed a civil lawsuit before judge Juan Guzmán Tapia against Pinochet.The criminal complaint states that the MIR had been formed in 1965 and that due to ideological and tactical differences did not become part of the Popular Unity government headed by Salvador Allende. Still, the organisation had served as a base of support for Allende and had shown willingness to confront violent sedition directed against the Popular Unity government organized by its US-backed right-wing opponents.

Subsequently, with the September 11, 1973 Chilean coup and the overthrow and death of Allende Chile entered a period of severe military repression in which members of the former democratically elected socialist Allende government and its supporters were deemed enemies of the state. From the onset on September 11, 1973 the MIR became a major focus of death squads and its members began to be subjected to extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances.

As a consequence, the MIR initiated a resistance against the military junta's violent repression that accompanied the clandestine publication of the document Qué es el MIR? (What is the MIR?) which proposed a series of resolutions to confront the repression, including political pressure, denunciations and propaganda. On one page (page 37 of the political document), the MIR presented the political question of arms in this resistance.

The lawsuit noted that the armed struggle was not central to the ideology of the MIR and that it had historically been a political organisation whose strategy had principally involved the mobilization of working class people and the poor in an attempt to exert political pressure to effectuate political and social change to advance their political cause.

The lawsuit noted that under the pretext of war serious violations of human rights had been committed in violations of both international and constitutional law. The document noted that the cruellest example was the extermination of the MIR political organization, in which according to the document its members fell victims to the following crimes:

Homicide (first degree murder)
Killings in mock confrontations – irrational use of force (such as mobilizing 300 security agents to arrest 4 people.)
False application of the ‘law of flight’ (executing people for escaping after being informally freed.)
Mass killings (state terrorism)
Abduction and Forced disappearances (sanctioned by article 141 of the Criminal Code)
Torture (violation of the Geneva convention)
Illicit associations (in accordane with Article 292 of the Criminal Code)
Genocide (in accordance with Article 2 of CPPCG)

Q.E.P.D Miguel Enríquez Espinoza (1944-1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiWI4pciPyI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXQ0VhQumwc

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