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LAUTARO FACTION OF THE UNITED POPULAR ACTION MOVEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
Synonyms:
Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement; Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces; Lautaro Youth Movement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Domain region:
Chile; Republic of Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)
