José Gregorio Liendo

José Gregorio Liendo Vera (1945 – October 3, 1973), also known as "Compañero Pepe", "Comandante Pepe" or "Loco Pepe" was a Chilean universitary student, political leader and militant of the Revolutionary Left Movement ("Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria"; "MIR"), a Marxist-Leninist and Guevarist urban guerrilla and political movement, being also leader and member of the "Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario" (MCR), the MIR's Front of the Masses ("Frente de Masas") among the Chilean peasentry, participated in the fundos occupations during the government democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende and the leftist political coalition Unidad Popular in the early 1970s.

José Gregorio Liendo, a.k.a. "Comandante Pepe", Chilean political leader, university student and MCR-MIR militant.

He also planned and executed with others militants of the MCR-MIR the attack on the police station of Neltume on September 12 following the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat. He had originally moved into the zone of Neltume in the 1960s after quitting his Agronomy university studies. He was executed in the prison of Isla Teja by a firing squad on October 3, 1973 an alleged war council accused him of having led a guerrilla focus.

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