Miguel Enriquez Espinosa (27 March 1944-5 October 1974) was a founder of the Revolutionary Left Movement of Chile (MIR), serving as Secretary-General from 1967 to 1974. He fought against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship after the 1973 Chilean Revolution, but he was killed by DINA in 1974.
Biography[]
Miguel Enriquez Espinosa was born on 27 March 1944 in Concepcion, Chile to a family descended from Scots, Germans, and Spanish. A trained neurologist and one of the smartest students while at university, Enriquez became well-read in the works of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Rosa Luxemburg, and in 1962 he joined the youth organization of the Socialist Party of Chile. Enriquez went on to found the Revolutionary Left Movement of Chile (MIR), serving as its Secretary-General from 1967 to 1974. Enriquez called for revolution against Salvador Allende due to his gradual transition to socialism, but the 11 September 1973 coup by Augusto Pinochet installed a right-wing government in Chile, oppressing leftists like Enriquez. On 5 October 1974 he was killed in a DINA raid on a house in a slum of the capital of Santiago, and the medicine faculty of the Superior Institute of Medicine of La Habana in Havana, Cuba was named for him, a medicine student.