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3 unusual facts about Carlos Montes


Carlos Montes

After threats against his life and beatings by the police and many arrests on false charges, he went underground and lived in Juarez, Mexico, and later in El Paso, Texas, where he did organized labor.

Montes was indicted twice for the ELA Blowout (he was one of the East LA 13) and later with ten others for conspiracy to commit arson by the Los Angeles Police Department at a demonstration against then Governor Ronald Reagan in 1969.

Raúl Iturriaga

Left-wing deputies of the Concertación, such as Carlos Montes (PS) and Denisse Pascal (PS), requested his transfer to the Punta Peuco prison, considered as more tightly guarded and where condemned militaries would enjoy less freedom of action than in the military prison.



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