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Court would have to rule whether the amendment was constitutional or not. When Chile was transitioning to democracy there were fourteen justices out of the sixteen who were appointed during the regime (Huneeus 2007, 439). The nine designated senators that were appointed was also pro Pinochet. Their presence would ensure that Pinochet would continue to be supported in the legislature. These impediments limited the party coalitions’ responsiveness and ability to enact legislation that would…

His Maze), was written by the Chilean film director and writer, Miguel Littin. Littin was born in the 1940s, was a supporter of Salvador Allende’s regime, and was exiled soon after the assassination of Allende during the rise in power of dictator Augusto Pinochet in Chile during his military coup of the country. Littin is also known for his other films, such as one relevant to this same historical subject is Dawson Isla 10 from 2009 which was a film about events after the 1973 coup that arrested…

Most parts of Latin America have been struggling to implement or enforce democracy for the past century. The most notable examples are Argentina and Chile. Many political scientists have argued that this is mostly due to internal factors such as the corporatist culture and lack of proper structural reforms, but they do not include external pressures from the international sphere to curb communist influence in Latin America. In this paper, I will argue that from the coup in Chile in 1973 to the…

In Chile, like Argentina, the country used ISI before the military take over in 1973. The election of Allende in 1970 began a shift towards political and economic socialism in the country without the support of the people. Some of his reforms concerned land distribution, the nationalization of industry and the expansion of social welfare. The Pinochet dictatorship did not implement neoliberal reforms until the late 1970s even as the country was experiencing hardship due to a decrease in oil…

History 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…

Augusto Pinochet was one of the worst and cruelest presidents in the history of the modern world, yet he walked away with years of crimes without anything further than some time in house arrest. He even got out of standing trial for his crimes on a bogus case of “Mental Inability” when he was in near-perfect health for a man his age. Additionally, MOST of the soldiers that committed these heinous acts for Pinochet have walked free(No consequence whatsoever), which is an enormous miscarriage of…

US Covert Operations in Chile 1963-1974 On September 11, 1973, a Chilean Air Force plane flew over the skies of La Moneda, presidential palace of Chile. Inside Salvador Allende , the first Marxist socialist chief of state ever elected in a democratic country via free vote three years earlier . Rather than surrender to a military coup, Allende commits suicide . Many reason exist as to why the Chilean military decided to overthrow a democratic government. Some attribute it to the United States…

countries’ (Kornbluh 187). The Brigada Exterior acted beyond the borders of Chile through international DINA agents like Michael Townley. Townley was an American citisen born in Waterloo, Iowa (Kornbluh 167) although his background being American Augusto Pinochet and his regime heavily influenced him as he spent quite a bit of his life as an expatriate kid in Chile. Townley become a part of the Patria y Libertad a pro-fascist military group and in 1973 and by 1974 he had joined the DINA and lead…

For my blog project, I have been focusing on the FIFA corruption scandal that started in 2010 during the World Cup in Africa. When I was researching blogs, many blogs were viewable however, most of the ones I clicked on were only the main post, they had never received any responses. I luckily found three blogs after a while of searching. The only downside is that the comments and posts on these blogs were not current for 2016. Many of the comments were posted roughly around the exact same time,…

Isabel Peron was born on February 4, 1931, in La Rioja, Argentina. Isabel’s real name was Maria Estela Martinez Cartas. Isabel changed her name after her confirmation in the Catholic Church. Isabel was born in the low to middle class. Her father was a banker and he died when Isabel was a young girl causing her family to have financial issues. Isabel learned had training in French, the piano and dance. However, after the fifth grade Isabel dropped out of school and became a dancer. That’s when…