Christine Lamont was born in 1959 in Langley, British Columbia and a student at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in the late 1980s. During her time at SFU she worked at CFRO-FM, a community radio station, where she met David Spencer. The two became involved in Latin American solidarity activism, supporting left-wing movements like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrillas in El Salvador. In 1989...
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Christine Lamont was born in 1959 in Langley, British Columbia and a student at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in the late 1980s. During her time at SFU she worked at CFRO-FM, a community radio station, where she met David Spencer. The two became involved in Latin American solidarity activism, supporting left-wing movements like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrillas in El Salvador. In 1989, using false passports, the two traveled to Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. They spent six months in Managua, supposedly, as translators for a Spanish newspaper.
In June 1989, the two next traveled to Brazil and sometime between June and December 1989, they made contact with revolutionaries from the Chilean Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). In December, the group kidnapped Brazilian businessman Abílio dos Santos Diniz and demanded $30 million dollars as a ransom. Mr. Diniz was held in a confined underground cell for six days before being...
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