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Attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet

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142:, and an "unknown number" of homemade grenades. The local mountainous geography prevented Pinochet's guards from using radio communication with nearby military and police units. However, despite being on a narrow road next to a ravine, Pinochet's car managed to turn around and escape the scene, albeit not before being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. The grenade fired at Pinochet's car did not, however, explode upon impact. Though Pinochet was unhurt, the shots killed five soldiers and injured eleven others. Initially, the guerrillas thought they had killed Pinochet and escaped the scene by pretending to be part of the security staff to evade incoming military and police. 20: 166:, who was already in custody, was killed. The failure of Pinochet's attempted assassination led to an internal crisis in the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, resulting in splits and the complete autonomy of the group from the 389: 104:
The location of the attack, Cuesta de Las Achupallas, was carefully selected by the guerillas. Cuesta de Las Achupallas is a bottleneck road along mountainous terrain between Santiago and
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Zalaquett, Cherie (2011). "La frentista "Fabiola": un relato en reversa del atentado a Pinochet" ["Fabiola": a reverse story on Pinochet attack].
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When Pinochet's motorcade arrived at the selected area at 18:35, it came under heavy fire. The guerrillas had 17 rifles; all of them, except one, were
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The assassination attempt triggered a wave of repression against dissidents of the dictatorship. Opposition figures unrelated to the events, such as
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The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front considered 1986 to be the decisive year in their struggle against Pinochet. The guerrillas termed the assault
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by 1987. The attackers faced different fates, but many were hunted down either in October 1986 or in the years leading up to the
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on August 31 influenced events by requiring Pinochet to travel back to Santiago, which changed the schedule of the attack.
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in 1990. José Joaquín Valenzuela, who was the "operative leader" of the attack, was extrajudicially killed in
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students. The plan involved using a heavy vehicle to block the motorcade's advance.
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Index


Raúl Pellegrin
Cecilia Magni
Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
assassination attempt
Augusto Pinochet
urban guerrilla
Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
ambushed
motorcade
Santiago
Spanish
Patricio Manns
Bulletproof vests
conscripts
Cajón del Maipo
seminary
Jorge Alessandri
M16 rifles
M72 LAW
rocket-propelled grenade
submachine gun
Ricardo Lagos
Patricio Hales
Germán Correa
José Carrasco
Communist Party
Chilean transition to democracy
Operación Albania
Assassination of Carlos Prats

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