Day of the Young Combatant (Chile)

Day of the Young Combatant is an unofficial commemoration day observed annually on 29 March in Chile. It serves as a remembrance of the assassination of brothers Rafael and Eduardo Vergara Toledo, who were killed on that date in 1985 during the military dictatorship in Chile. The brothers were allegedly members of a left-wing, anti-dictatorship insurgent group called MIR.

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Chile had a population of 17.5 million as of the latest census in 2017 and has a territorial area of 756,102 square kilometers (291,933 sq mi), sharing borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. The country also controls several Pacific islands, including Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island, and claims about 1,250,000 square kilometers (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica as the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The capital and largest city of Chile is Santiago, and the national language is Spanish.

March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 277 days remain until the end of the year.