Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Movement

The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Movement (MPMR) is a far-left political and social movement founded by former soldiers of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, who had split from the organization. and its attachment to the armed struggle to overthrow the military dictatorship already in 1987. In 2015 its members formed a political party called Popular Front, a group that had legal recognition between 2016 and 2017.

History

The FPMR participated in acts against the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The most famous of these was the attack against Augusto Pinochet in 1986.

After the return to democracy, a group left the FPMR to form the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Movement. It was also divided into small groups such as the Lautaro Patriotic Front and Rodriguista Identity (IR, 2002).

In 2003 it became part of the Together We Can More pact. A pact that it abandoned after the Communist Party of Chile called to vote in the second round of the presidential elections for the Concertación, thus betraying the declaration of principles that it maintained at that time Together We Can More.

The MPMR maintained contacts with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, as recognized by its leader Marcos Riquelme.

Like the FPMR, they are named after the Chilean hero Manuel Rodríguez, who was known as a revolutionary from the group of "the exalted" at the beginning of the century XIX, times when Chile's independence was being forged. According to legends, Manuel Rodríguez opened the car door to Governor Marcó del Pont, despite the fact that a reward was offered for his capture, for these and other events of the hero, both the Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Movement bear his name, considering themselves "continuers." of the people's independence struggle.

Political party

On August 3, 2015, the movement created the Popular Front (FP) political party, with the aim of presenting candidates in the 2016 municipal and 2017 parliamentary elections. Said party was officially registered in the Coquimbo Region on February 26, 2016.

According to their declaration of principles, they define themselves as "patriots and anti-imperialists, therefore Latin Americanists" and defend "Bolivarism." Together with the Equality Party and other leftist movements, they formed the Pueblo Unidos coalition, with which they presented candidates for mayor. and councilors for the 2016 municipal elections. The party's headquarters were at Avenida Brasil 658, Santiago, and its board of directors is made up of Marco Riquelme García (president), Roberto Muñoz Albuerno (general secretary) and Owana Madera Mac-Killroy.

On April 14, 2017, the party requested its legal registration in the regions of Atacama and Valparaíso, in order to maintain legality - a product of the modifications to the Law of Political Parties - being constituted in three contiguous regions. By not meeting the minimum requirements for legal recognition, Servel announced on April 27, 2017 that the party would be dissolved.