Eduardo Artés


Eduardo Artés Brichetti is a Chilean educator and political figure. He is the leader of the Chilean Communist Party and Patriotic Union, which nominated him as a candidate for the 2017 presidential election.
Artés is anti-revisionist and defines himself as "Marxist-Leninist", although his detractors qualify him like "Neostalinist". On several occasions he has expressed support for North Korea's ideological and social model.
In 2005 he was a candidate for senator for Santiago with support of the coalition Juntos Podemos Más. In 2009 he had a failed presidential candidacy.
Artés criticized Israel in November 2017, calling it "a threat to world peace."

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