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5 unusual facts about Communist Party of Chile


Caldillo de congrio

The Communist Party of Chile entertains every year the Chilean press and media with a Caldillo de Congrio for last 20 years, in which important announcements are made for the current year.

Gabriel Salazar

On June 2012 Salazar sparked a controversy by stating that student leader Camila Vallejo should quit the Communist Party of Chile if she was intelligent enough.

Galvarino Apablaza

He was the leader of the Marxist group FPMR, founded in 1983 as the armed wing of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh).

Los de Abajo

Politically, in 2003, they were one of the founding organizations of the Juntos Podemos Más, a left-wing coalition that includes the Communist Party of Chile and several others organizations.

Viviana Díaz

She is the daughter of Víctor Días sub-secretary of the Communist Party of Chile who disappeared after he was arrested by security forces in 1976.


Unidad Popular

Succeeding to the FRAP left-wing coalition, it originally comprised most of the Chilean Left: the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Radical Party, the Social Democratic Party (Chile), and MAPU (Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitario).


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