This is one of the many forms taken by the Chilean junta's deliberate policy of terror - a policy characterised by an. incredible anti-MIR hysteria. You only have to listen to the radio, read the papers or watch the TV to be convinced of it: the MIR is everywhere, and responsible for a thousand and one crimes. committed in a remote area - it's the MIR who did it. Some drug traffickers are arrested - of course they must be members of the MIR. A robbery is carried out - inevitably the hand of the MIR is detected behind it.
According to the junta the MIR is everywhere, involved in every shady affair and dirty deed throughout the length and breadth of The object of such a systematic campaign is twofold: on the one hand, to discredit the organisation by blaming it for every act of gangstersm or ordinary crime; on the other hand, to justify the continuing repression by exaggerating the supposed power and influence of the MIR.
This does not always have the desired effects. No Chilean worker can seriously believe that the MIR, whose positions were universally