Dokument #1116118
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
As explained by telephone, specific
references to a party named Juventudes Socialistas could not be
found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC. The only
available source referring to a Socialist Youth movement is
Chile (Zürich: Schweizerische Zentralstelle für
Flüchtlingshilfe, 1988), in the bottom of an unnumbered page
(attached) of the first annex, under "Sozialistische Partei". This
source mentions a Socialist Youth movement belonging to the
Almeyda-faction Socialist Party.
"Juventudes" translates into "youth", a
term often assigned to the juvenile organizations of political
parties. However, no reference to such a branch of the Socialist
Party under the requested name could be found among the currently
available sources (the acronyms FJS and JPS mentioned in the
attached sources could stand for Frente de Juventudes Socialistas
or Juventudes del Partido Socialista, but it has not been possible
to corroborate this).
Regarding participation of Juventudes
Socialistas in the "Comando por el No" (Command for the No, the
multi-party coalition which opposed President Pinochet's prolonged
rule), please find attached a chart from Mission to Chile
(New York: Freedom House, 1988). Again, there is no specific
reference to a Juventudes Socialistas, but there is a reference to
the Almeyda and others' factions of the Socialist Party.