Andrés Pascal Allende (born 12 July 1943 in

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) is a

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dissident and nephew of former President

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Early life and education

Pascal was born on 12 July 1943 in Valparaíso, to Gastón Pascal Lyon and Laura Allende. Pascal has 3 older siblings, Pedro Gastón, Marianne and , a politician for the

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. He is of

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and Belgian descent. Pascal was educated at the Grange School and Saint George's College. Continuing his education, Pascal studied sociology at the

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. Pascal also studied history at the

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but didn't graduate. During the 1960s, Allende married Carmen Castillo Echeverría, a French-Chilean filmmaker and member of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). The couple had one daughter, Camila Pascal Castillo, before later separating.

MIR and exile

Pascal is the former leader of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) along with Miguel Enríquez. After the

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, and upon original leader Miguel Enriquez's death in 1974, Andrés Pascal Allende took control of the MIR. Pascal's leadership stint ended relatively quickly when he fled Chile in 1976 for

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. In March 1976, Orlando Bosch was arrested by

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n police on suspicion of trying to assassinate Pascal and his companion Mary-Anne Beausire. In 1978, Pascal's 4 year old son Pablo died from fulminant bacterial meningitis. In 1986, Pascal ceased to be the

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of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left.

Return to Chile

Allende was the director of planning and development at the University of Art & Social Sciences.

Publications

* Pascal Allende, Andrés (1968). ''Relaciones de poder en una localidad rural (Estudio de caso en el Valle Hurtado, Coquimbo)'' (1 ed.). Santiago: ICIRA. * Pascal Allende, Andrés (2003). ''El MIR chileno : una experiencia revolucionaria''. Argentina: Ediciones Cucaña. * Pascal Allende, Andrés; Vidaurrázaga Aránguiz, Tamara (2011). Baer, Willi; Dellwo, Karl-Heinz; Castillo, Carmen (eds.). ''MIR : Die revolutionäre linke Chiles'' (in German). Hamburg: Laika-Verlag. ISBN 978-3942281805.

External links

The William Beausire case

Interview Pagina Digital

References

1943 births Allende family Chilean people of Basque descent Saint George's College, Santiago alumni Chilean revolutionaries Living people People from Santiago, Chile Presidency of Salvador Allende Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) politicians Salvador Allende Chilean emigrants to Cuba Chilean sociologists {{Chile-activist-stub