The MAPU during the dictatorship

Did MAPU die on September 11, 2005, as Eugenio Tironi stated? Was its death finalized 16 years earlier, when the party legally disappeared? Was this a political party according to standard parameters? What accounts for its persistence in contemporary political discourse? Why is the transition to democracy in Chile incomprehensible without it? These are some of the questions that give rise to this exhaustive research, which seeks to uncover some of the characteristics of this organization that became one of the most interesting political phenomena in our recent history. Cristina Moyano is a historian and published MAPU o la seducción del poder y la juventud – los años fundacionales del partido-mito de nuestra transición (1969-1973) [MAPU or the Seduction of Power and Youth – The Foundational Years of the Mythical Party of Our Transition (1969-1973)], Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2009.