Svante Grände (26 March 1947 – 14 October 1975) was a Swedish aid worker and guerrilla fighter in

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during the 1970s. He was one of two known Swedish citizens to be killed in the

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, the other being Dagmar Hagelin.

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Grände was born in

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, Sweden and was the fifth out of seven children of

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Gustaf Grände and Anna-Carin Crona. He became an aid worker (part of UBV) in

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in 1971 and after the 1973 coup d'état he joined the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), an armed resistance movement that fought dictator

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. There he was given the title ''el Comandante Julio''. After months on the run in the mountains of southern Chile he and other surviving guerrilla members were able to escape to Argentina. There Grände joined the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) and became lieutenant in the beginning of 1975. Grände was killed by the Argentine military in an ambush on 14 October 1975 in

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, Argentina. He was at the time part of the mountain guerrilla company called "Ramón Rosa Jiménez".

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