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Popular Unitary Action Movement Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria | |
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| Leader | Historical Leaders Jacques Chonchol Rodrigo Ambrosio Eduardo Aquevedo Kalki Glauser Óscar Guillermo Garretón |
| Founded | May 19, 1969 |
| Dissolved | June 8, 1994 |
| Split from | Christian Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | Santiago de Chile |
| Ideology | Liberation theology Christian socialism Marxism Democratic socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Popular Unity (1969–1973) People's Democratic Movement (1983–1987) |
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The Popular Unitary Action Movement or MAPU (Spanish: Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitario) was a small leftist political party in Chile. It was part of the Popular Unity coalition during the government of Salvador Allende. MAPU was repressed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In this period, some of its most radical members formed the Movimiento Juvenil Lautaro, whose leaders were political prisoners during the dictatorship and with the return to democracy. Another faction of the former members of the party joined the social democratic Party for Democracy in 1987.