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.
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.
Sources
- José Gregorio LIENDO VERA, Memoria Viva. Retrieved 27 September 2009.
- Guzmán reconstituye asalto a retén Neltume, El Mercurio. Published April 13, 2003. retrieved 27 September 2009.
- Violencia y muerte en el campo chileno, Economía y Sociedad nº97. Retrieved October 2018.
- https://ellibero.cl/carta/no-mas-terrorismo/
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- Senado de Chile (26 de julio de 1972). «Diario de sesión: Sesión Especial № 42 del Senado, Legislatura 1972 - V.-Orden del día. Acusación constitucional contra el ministro de Interior, señor Hernándel Canto Riquelme». www.bcn.cl. Consultado el 10 de septiembre de 2019. «La lista en referencia, la encabeza el obrero Juan Félix Leiva Riquelme. A continuación figura doña Antonieta Maachel, que se suicidó en su predio, en la ciudad de Valdivia, el 29 de noviembre de 1970, en circunstancias de que había sido secuestrada por ocupantes miristas de dicho predio [...]».