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How did Ricardo Lagos Escobar first get involved in Chilean politics?

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In the early 1980s he helped found the Alliance for Democracy and led it in 1983-84, becoming one of Chile's leading socialists and by 1988 a bluntly outspoken critic of President Pinochet , who had overthrown Allende.

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