Popular Unitary Action Movement

Popular Unitary Action Movement
Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria
LeaderHistorical Leaders
Jacques Chonchol
Rodrigo Ambrosio
Eduardo Aquevedo
Kalki Glauser
Óscar Guillermo Garretón
FoundedMay 19, 1969
DissolvedJune 8, 1994
Split fromChristian Democratic Party
HeadquartersSantiago de Chile
IdeologyLiberation theology
Christian socialism
Marxism
Democratic socialism
Political positionLeft-wing
National affiliationPopular 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.