The Pinochet Regime

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It can be seen that there were many consequences of the Pinochet regime and that is why there was the 1980 Constitution, which was approved by a plebiscite. "It delimited the participation of groups, parties or political movements that were class-based, motivated by ideology ... and fused an administrative state that was instructed to the military." (Loveman and Davies, 1989 p.270) However, he stated that Pinochet would be President until 1989 when it is another election. Chile returned to democracy in 1990 after democratic elections with the victory of President Patricio Aylwin.

Now let's consider what happened in Argentina, a country that experienced some dictatorships but as an example I will study the dictatorship in 1976 until 1983. The
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"The weak and hesitant leadership of Isabel Peron plus increasing efforts of destabilization by business and military groups, caused the economy to suffer hyperinflation and a large recession. From June to August consumer prices rose by 102 percent "(O'Brien and Cammack, 1985 p.47). This shows that there was a lot of pressure on the economic and political situation at this time and that is why society needed someone who It was possible to recover the situation in the country. Also, it can be said that terrorism by guerrillas and political violence played an important role in the dictatorship. The terrorist group of the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance (AAA) and the montoneros that provoked a guerrilla movement in the seventies, provoked terror through society. This led to apprehension among the people and the tensions began to increase. All this led to a society in Argentina that accepted a dictatorship because democracy did not work. The military seized a vulnerable society and began to commit changes in favor of the public as to recover the country economically and without violence.

Then, a right-wing military coup occurred on March 24, 1976 in order to overthrow Isabel Peron and make Jorge Rafael Videla in control. Videla worked with the help of Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera and Orlando Ramón Agosti, air force brigadier from 1973 to 1981 when he was overthrown by Leopoldo

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