Luis Corvalán

Luis Nicolás Corvalán Lepe (14 September 1916[1] – 21 July 2010[2]) was a Chilean politician.

Corvalán joined the Communist Party of Chile at the age of fifteen in the city of Chillán shortly after the fall of the dictatorship of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo in 1932.

[3] Trained as a teacher, after 1952 he became an elected member of the PCCh's Central Committee, and after 1958 served as its secretary-general.

On 11 September 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup and Corvalán was among the many arrested.

[5][6] Corvalán was mentioned in the Oktoberklub cover of the German version of the traditional drinking song of Brittany, Was Wollen wir Trinken.