Andrés Pascal Allende

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pascal and the second or maternal family name is Allende.

Andrés Pascal Allende (born 12 July 1943 in Valparaíso, Chile) ^[1] is a Chilean Marxist dissident and nephew of former President Salvador Allende.

Andrés Pascal Allende
Secretary General to Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)
In office 1974–1986
Preceded by	Miguel Enríquez
Succeeded by	Movement partially dissolved
Personal details
Born	Andrés Eduardo Pascal Allende (1943-06-12)12 June 1943 Valparaíso, Chile
Political party	Movement of the Revolutionary Left
Spouses	Carmen Castillo Echeverría Mary Ann Beausire Alonso Olga Ofelia Sánchez Machado
Children	4 – 5
Parent	Laura Allende (mother)
Relatives	Allende family Salvador Allende (Uncle) Denise Pascal [es] (Sister) William Beausire (ex-brother-in-law) Mónica Echeverría (ex-mother-in-law) Fernando Castillo Velasco [es] (ex-father-in-law)
Education	Pontifical Catholic University of Chile University of Chile (didn't graduate)

Early life and education

Pascal was born on the 12 July 1943 in Valparaíso, to Gastón Pascal Lyon and Laura Allende.^[1] Pascal has 3 older siblings, Pedro Gastón, Marianne and Denise Pascal [es], a politician for the Socialist Party of Chile.^[2][3][4][5] He is of Basque^[6] and Belgian descent.

Pascal was educated at the Grange School and Saint George's College. ^[7][8] Continuing his education, Pascal studied sociology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.^[8] Pascal also studied history at the University of Chile but didn't graduate.^[8]

During the 1960s, Allende married Carmen Castillo Echeverría, a French-Chilean filmmaker and member of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR).^[9][10] The couple had one daughter, Camila Pascal Castillo, before later separating.^[9]

MIR and exile

Pascal is the former leader of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) along with Miguel Enríquez. After the Chilean coup of 1973, 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 Cuba.

In March 1976, Orlando Bosch was arrested by Costa Rican police on suspicion of trying to assassinate Pascal and his companion Mary-Anne Beausire.^[11] In 1978, Pascal's 4 year old son Pablo died from fulminant bacterial meningitis. ^[12]

In 1986, Pascal ceased to be the Secretary General of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left. ^[13]

Return to Chile

Allende was the director of planning and development at the University of Art & Social Sciences.^[14]

Publications

• Pascal Allende, Andrés (1968). Relaciones de poder en una localidad rural (Estudio de caso en el Valle Hurtado, Coquimbo) (1 ed.). Santiago: ICIRA. ^[15]

• Pascal Allende, Andrés (2003). El MIR chileno : una experiencia revolucionaria. Argentina: Ediciones Cucaña.^[16]

• 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. ^[17]

External links

• The William Beausire case
• Interview Puro Chile (in Spanish)
• Remembrances of his times in the MIR (in Spanish)
• Interview with biographical data (in Spanish)
• Interview Pagina Digital (in Spanish)