Carlos Altamirano
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Carlos Altamirano Orrego (December 18, 1922, Santiago de Chile) is a lawyer and one of the most influential politicians of Chilean socialism. He was the general secretary of the Chilean Socialist Party (PS) between 1971 and 1979. Before that, he was deputy from 1961 to 1965 and senator from 1965 to 1973. He fled away after Pinochet's coup d'état on September 11, 1973.
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[edit] Biography
Carlos Altamirano started as professor of economic law and hacienda publica in the state school of the University of Chile. Once exiled, he was one of the main protagonist of the ideological renovation of Chilean socialism. He wrote Dialéctica de una Derrota en 1977 ("Dialectics of a Defeat"). He returned to Chile after the end of Pinochet's dictatorship in 1993, and didn't participate actively in politics, although he did continue his reflections concerning politics.
Carlos Altamirano led the way for armed struggle against the bourgeoisie, in particular after the tanquetazo failed right wing coup. During Salvador Allende's government, he had a very strong discourse, calling to "advance without compromise" (avanzar sin transar — that might be compared to Marceau Pivert's tout est possible, "everything is possible", during the 1936 Popular Front in France). After the September 11, 1973 coup, he exiled himself to Cuba.
According to lawyer Alun Jones, representant of the Spanish justice during Spain's request to Great Britain for the extradition of Augusto Pinochet, Augusto Pinochet had met with Italian international terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie after Franco's funerals in 1975 to plan an attack against Carlos Altamirano. The plan either failed because of Altamirano's awareness and personal caution, or because some intelligence agency — it is not known from which country — would have make him aware of the threats on his personal life [1].
[edit] References
- ^ (Spanish) "Las Relaciones secretas entre Pinochet, Franco y la P2 - Conspiración para matar", Equipo Nizkor, February 4, 1999. Retrieved on May 9, 2006.
[edit] Books
- (Spanish) Dialéctica de una Derrota (1977)
- (Spanish) Después de Todo ("After Everything")
