Andrés Pascal Allende (born July 12, 1943) is a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

Marxist Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

dissident and nephew of former President

Salvador Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (, , ; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the fir ...

. He is of

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and

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descent. He was born in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

, the son of Gastón Pascal Lyon and of

Laura Allende Laura Allende Gossens (3 September 1911 – 23 May 1981) was a Chilean politician, a member of the lower chamber of parliament and sister of former president of Chile Salvador Allende. Early life A member of the Allende family, Laura was of B ...

. He studied at

Saint George's College, Santiago Saint George's College, founded in 1936 and run by the Congregation of Holy Cross, is a private school in Santiago, Chile. According to Seminarium Head Hunting, one third of the CEOs of the top 200 companies in Chile are graduates of the school. ...

(class of 1962). He is former leader of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left along with Miguel Enríquez. After the

Chilean coup of 1973 Chilean may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Chile, a country in South America * Chilean people * Chilean Spanish * Chilean culture * Chilean cuisine * Chilean Americans See also *List of Chileans This is a list of Chileans who ar ...

, and upon original leader Miguel Enriquez's death in 1974, Andrés Pascal Allende took control of the MIR. Pascal's leadership stint ended relatively quickly when he fled Chile in 1976 for

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. In March 1976,

Orlando Bosch Orlando Bosch Ávila (18 August 1926 – 27 April 2011) was a Cuban exile militant, who headed the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU), described by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation as a terrorist or ...

was arrested by

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n police on suspicion of trying to assassinate Pascal and his companion Mary-Anne Beausire.The 1970s as context for terrorist violence
by

Saul Landau Saul Landau (January 15, 1936 – September 9, 2013) was an American journalist, filmmaker and commentator. He was also a professor emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he taught history and digital media. Educa ...

, ''Progreso Weekly'', 30 May 2007. Accessed online 30 June 2008.

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1943 births Allende family Chilean people of Basque descent Saint George's College, Santiago alumni Chilean revolutionaries Living people People from Santiago Presidency of Salvador Allende Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) politicians Salvador Allende Chilean emigrants to Cuba {{Chile-politician-stub