Chile Leftists Fail to Get Out Message
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Three armed men raided a Santiago radio station Thursday but failed to broadcast an anti-government message, the station’s director said.
Javier Miranda, director of Radio Viva FM, said the three called themselves members of the leftist Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, which claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful attempt to kill President Augusto Pinochet a year ago.
They tied up a guard and another employee at 6:30 a.m. and demanded that a text be broadcast. But Miranda said transmission was impossible “due to technical reasons at that early hour.”
He said the three men then wrote slogans criticizing the military government on the walls and left.
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