Julieta Campusano

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Julieta Campusano (31 May 1918, Coquimbo – 11 June 1991) was a Chilean politician, belonging to the Communist Party of Chile. Campusano was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xilFW-yGCGsC&pg=PA101|title = After Exile: Writing the Latin American Diaspora|last = Kaminsky|first = Amy K.|date = 1999-01-01|publisher = U of Minnesota Press|isbn = 978-0-8166-3148-3|language = en}}

In 1944 the Chilean Federation of Women's Institution (FECHIF) was founded, with Campusano as one of its leaders. In 1947, Campusano was elected municipal councilor in Santiago de Chile.{{Citation |last=Osorio |first=Andrea |title=La mujer en Chile |date=March 7, 2003 |url=https://www.archivochile.com/Mov_sociales/mov_mujeres/MSmovmujeres0008.pdf |access-date= |publisher= |language=Spanish |author-link= }}.

Campusano went into exile after the September 11, 1973 coup d'état. In the 1980s she returned to Chile, but was arrested.{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xilFW-yGCGsC&pg=PA103|title = After Exile: Writing the Latin American Diaspora|last = Kaminsky|first = Amy K.|date = 1999-01-01|publisher = U of Minnesota Press|isbn = 978-0-8166-3148-3|language = en}} In May 1987, she was sentenced to banishment to Sierra Gorda in northern Chile.{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Z66kKwNwBJ4C|title = Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos 1987|last1 = Rights|first1 = Inter-American Commission on Human|last2 = Rights|first2 = Inter-American Court of Human|date = 1990-02-01|publisher = Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn = 978-0-7923-0265-0|language = es}} She died of cancer in 1991.