Dictatorship In The 1980's

During the 1980’s there was a movement towards a democratic government from dictatorships. The leading four factors, that the author Padraic Kenney thought to be causing the change in the type of government from dictatorships to a democracy was: nonviolence, technological advancements, transnationality, and the emergence of human rights. Dictators weren’t as popular in countries under that type of government because the people of those countries wanted better human rights and that meant voting for a type of government that would put in place laws and policies that would benefit the people and stop the use of violence to control everybody. Young people living in countries were further removed from the trauma of the Cold War and were showing frustration towards their leadership because of the economic hard times, and lack of good …show more content…
A women’s movement that started to take off, consisting of mothers and wives of the people that were disappearing in Chile, they just wanted to bring to attention what others were to scared to express and defend the lives of their children. Alongside their movement was a movement that started to oppose the Catholic church, as shown in document 18, a father was so distressed over the disappearance of his children, he set himself on fire to draw the attention of the church to the mistreatment of people happening in the country at the hands of Pinochet and the police. Once the activists had the church’s attention, they showed them the mistreatment going on. A priest by the name of Father Jose Aldunate began leading peaceful protests in the streets outside the police stations. Soon after Father Jose Aldunate was shot to death, around 300 people, consisting of priests, nuns and church goers, started protesting as