Chile fighting for independence against spain in 1810. initial revolts were suppressed. The Spanish were quickly defeated, and one of the revolution's heroes, Bernardo O'Higgins, became supreme dictator of the new republic. O’higgins left the country in 1823.
A civil war in 1891 was followed by less stable governments and military interventions. In 1932 chile returned to constitutional rule.
By 1970 a lot of people socialism could solve a lot of their problems as soon as salvador becomes the first freely elected Marxist president in South America.
In march 2016 the lower house of congress approved a bill to allow cases of abortion of rape and when the child is at risk. Abortion has been criminalized since 1989. President