“Your stature as a combatant illuminates the path of the new generations of revolutionaries”
One of the great anonymous figures in the history of the resistance and the combative struggle against the civic-military dictatorship has passed away. The news from Havana, Cuba, is that the old man fought against death as well as the attack dogs that pursued him after each of the Central Force operations, the structure of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) that he led in the early 1980s and that despite the harsh repression exerted by the apparatus security managed to carry out political-military operations that impacted the regime and promoted the anti-dictatorial struggle.
The old man, a native of Mejillones, was marked since he was a child by the murder by police of the workers of the Pedro de Valdivia salt mine. He was first active in the Socialist Party where, captivated by the Cuban revolution and Fidel, he tried unsuccessfully to join the column of Ñancahuasu, in Bolivia, after the fall in combat of Che Guevara; he later joined the contingent that traveled to Cuba to receive political-military training at Punto Cero at the beginning of the 1970s, and after Miguel’s fall he finally joined the ranks of the MIR, where after military training, he was part of the Offensive Plan of ’78, also known as Operation Return, which brought him to Chile, clandestinely, in September 1977.
The old man’s traces are from the first operations of the Central Force, the economic recuperation of the tobacco and cigarette distributor on Independence Street, the action at the José Domingo Cañas torture house, the triple assaults on the banks of Santa Elena and Rodrigo de Araya, the execution of Roger Vergara, Director of the Army Intelligence School, the attack on the Investigation and CNI barracks, among other operations, in addition to being the Head of the Information Operations, Planning and Logistics team and being part of the Santiago Military Zonal Directorate, were part of the combative experience that Alberto developed in those short but intense years at the beginning of the 1980s and that served not only to inflict accurate blows on the dictatorship, but also to encourage the working class and the people through the tactics of armed propaganda, to launch into the fight against their oppressors.
Alberto, as he was known in the subversive and revolutionary militancy, while he could, never stopped being part of the processes of emancipation and political-military training that were developed at a continental level in recent decades; the cities and mountains of the Latin American Caribbean and of course the class-conscious and combative youth of Chile, learned of his combative experience and hundreds of militants from various detachments went through his cadre training schools, many were guided by the old man in the streets of Havana, in those beautiful afternoons of reflection on the shores of the Malecón on the fight to definitively end this order of injustice and misery and for the construction of socialism and a classless society.
Today, when the old man is no longer among us, it is not the sorrow or the pain that overwhelms us, on the contrary, his lessons, his life experience, his actions are the best memory for those who made his revolutionary militancy his life, surely now, together with Arcadia, Arturo, Lucia, Hugo and so many others who fell while being part of the Central Force, he will become an example for the new generations of young combatants who join the fight and who fight day by day for the end. of capitalism and the construction of a new classless society, communism.
Honor and Glory to Old Alberto… may his death be transformed into energy for the class-conscious and combative youth
Revolutionary Communist Organization
Chile, May 9, 2026
Resumen Latinoamericano, 9 May 2026.