María_Rivera_(Chilean_activist)

María Rivera (activist)

María Rivera (activist)

Chilean political activist

María Magdalena Rivera Iribarren (born 28 January 1958) is a Chilean political activist, politician and lawyer.

Quick Facts Member of the Constitutional Convention, Constituency ...

She is part of the International Workers' Movemement (IWM) linked to the Fourth International (of trotskyist filiation).[2][3][4]

Biography

When Rivera was 12 in 1970, she worked as an activist for Salvador Allende candidacy. Then, in 1972 she became part of the Revolutionary Students Front (FER).[5]

In 2019, she was a founding member of the «Popular Defender», organisation which has the objective of defending prisoners of the Social Outbrust (2019–20 protests).[5]

During the 2020–21 period, she was proposed as candidate for the Constitutional Convention,[6] which was formalized in early 2021 when was reported that she will run for the 8th District.[7] Thus, media like El Líbero ―rightist online newspaper― branded her as a «ultra» due to her trotskyist filiation[7][6] and IWM purposes for take «the power for the workers and the people, only one solution to finish the exploitation and capitalism».[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "María Rivera (Lista del Pueblo): "La palabra expropiación provoca mucha alarma, la correcta es recuperar"". CNN Chile. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  2. [2]
    "María Magdalena Rivera Iribarren: Un poco sobre lo que queremos". The List of the People Website. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  3. [3]
    "El movimiento de ultraizquierda que domina Plaza Italia y que organiza nuevo estallido para marzo". El Líbero. 22 January 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Chile: Un terremoto político. Gran triunfo de la clase trabajadora y la juventud, María Rivera a la Constituyente!". Fourth International. 17 May 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Constituyente Electa: María Magdalena Rivera Iribarren". La Tercera. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  6. [6]
    "María Rivera: Una candidatura independiente y revolucionaria al distrito 8". La voz de los Trabajadores (Chile). 15 April 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  7. [7]
    "Los "ultras" que buscan llegar a la Convención Constituyente". El Líbero. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.


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