José Muñoz Alcoholado
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José Muñoz Alcoholado | |
|---|---|
| Died | |
| Other names | Chico Alejo |
| Citizenship | Chile |
| Occupation | Revolutionary |
José Muñoz Alcoholado (nom de guerre "Chico Alejo") was a Chilean Marxist revolutionary.
During the late 20th century and early 21st century, Muñoz was a member of a variety of insurgent movements across Latin America, including Peru's Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN).[1] In the 1980s, he broke with other members of the Revolutionary Left Movement due to ideological differences and co-founded the MIR Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP).[2] He was murdered by contract killers in 2017 in Venezuela where he was living after fleeing arrest in Chile on charges related to a major factory robbery.[3]
Muñoz was the son of José Muñoz, who served as a captain in the Carabineros de Chile in the early 1970s and was the commander of the palace guard of La Moneda at the time of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat.[4]