Senator Jaime Guzmán was shot at the exit of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile where he was a professor of constitutional law. He was driven to a nearby hospital by his driver but died three hours later from several bullet wounds. His assassination was executed by FPMR members Ricardo Palma Salamanca and Raúl Escobar Poblete; however, the operation is believed to have been planned by the leaders of the movement Galvarino Apablaza, Mauricio Hernández Norambuena and Juan Gutiérrez Fischmann, who had been planning the murder of Guzman since the 1980s. In 1993, FPMR guerrillas bombed two McDonald's restaurants and attempted to bomb a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. In 2005 FPMR member Patricio Ortiz received political asylum in Switzerland. He was sentenced in Chile to ten years of prison for the assassination of a police officer in 1991, during the beginning of the transition to democracy. Ortiz escaped from a Chilean prison in 1996, and reached Switzerland the following year. Following an extradition request by Chile, he was detained by Swiss authorities, who later refused to extradite him as his physical integrity could not be assured (i.e. possibility of torture: extraditing him would have violated article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights). Swiss authorities then freed him and granted him asylum. In 2007 the Socialist President Michelle Bachelet, who had been herself tortured by the army, criticized the political asylum given to Ortiz, to indignation of the Chilean Left. Extradition proceedings On 13 September 2011, judge Mario Carroza from Santiago's Court of Appeals, requested the Chilean Supreme Court the extradition from Belgium of former FPMR guerrilla Miguel Ángel Peña, accused of UDI's Senator Jaime Guzmán's murder that took place at 1 April 1991. See also Chile under Pinochet Armed resistance in Chile (1973–90) Chilean transition to democracy References External links Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front website MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base website about Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, líder del MRPF Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front terrorist actions in Chile and list of victims Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front Rebel groups in Chile Communism in Chile Communist Party of Chile Defunct communist militant groups Far-left politics in Chile Guerrilla movements in Latin America Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990) Organizations formerly designated as terrorist by the United States Paramilitary organisations based in Chile