Miguel Enríquez Espinosa

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Miguel Enríquez Espinosa
March 27, 1944 – October 5, 1974

Alternate name:	Miguel Enríquez
Date of birth:	March 27, 1944
Place of birth:	Concepción, Chile
Date of death:	October 5, 1974
Place of death:	Santiago, Chile
Major organizations:	Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (M.I.R.) (English Movement of the Revolutionary Left

Miguel Enríquez Espinosa (March 27, 1944 - October 5, 1974) was a physician and the General Secretary of the Chilean Marxist-Leninist political party Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) (Spanish Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria) between 1967 and his death in 1974.

1 Biography
2 Miguel Enríquez Quotes
3 References
4 Additional information
- 4.1 See also
- 4.2 Sources

[edit] Biography

Miguel was born in Concepción, Chile into the middle class family of Edgardo Enríquez Frodden and Raquel Espinosa Townsend. His father Edgardo was a doctor specializing in anatomy, an important figure in the Partido Radical (Radical Party), rector of the university of Concepción between 1969 and 1972 and Minister of Education in the Unidad Popular government of Salvador Allende in 1973.

At the age of 16 Enriquez enters the University of Concepcion, Chile to study medicine. At the age of 23 he graduates with a Medical Degree, which he obtains with the highest distinction which earned him at the same time a specialization scholarship to attend the Neurological Institute of Santiago de Chile. He specializes and is trained as a Neurologist. ^[1]

After the coup d'état by the armed forces against Allende's government on Tuesday 11 September 1973 Miguel was one of the main leaders in the resistance against the military junta led by Augusto Pinochet. 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 suburban home were he was carrying out his clandestine resistance work. He is interred 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 honour.

[edit] Miguel Enríquez Quotes

The reformist illusion was paid for and is being paid for by the working class, its leaders and parties, which heroically and tragically defended it to the last moment, confirming in a dramatic fashion the phrase of the XVIII Century French revolutionary Louis de Saint-Just: “Those who make revolution half way only dig their own graves”. ^[2]

[edit] References

^ From the "Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Dr.Miguel Enríquez" Dr. Miguel Enriquez Faculty of Medical Science, Cuba" information page. [1]
^ From an interview Miguel Enríquez held shortly after the military coup of september 11, 1973, that ended the socialist government of Salvador Allende [2]