Roberto Thieme

Walter Robert Thieme Schiersand (16 November 1942 – 1 October 2023) was a Chilean furniture maker, painter, and politician. He gained notoriety by becoming one of the highest leaders of the Fatherland and Liberty Nationalist Front, an organization strongly opposed to the government of Salvador Allende through violent means, often resorting to worker riots. After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and instalment of the subsequent military junta, he went through a major ideological change, after which he became a political activist, often organizing events against the regime led by Augusto Pinochet, which he accused of abandoning nationalism in favour of global neoliberalism. Recently, he defined himself as a nationalist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and Indigenista.

Roberto Thieme
Thieme in 1973
Secretary general of Fatherland and Liberty
In office
10 April 1971  24 February 1973
Succeeded byBenjamín Matte Guzmán
Personal details
Born
Walter Robert Thieme Schiersand

(1942-11-16)16 November 1942
Santiago, Chile
Died1 October 2023(2023-10-01) (aged 80)
Spouse
(m. 19921994)
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