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This 10 page paper discusses the revolution in Chile in 1973, in which army general Augusto Pinochet overthrew the elected President of Chile, Salvador Allende. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the events and reasons for the revolt. Discussion Research has revealed that opinions about the coup depend to a great extent on the politics of the person discussing it. Liberals
tend to blame the CIA and American meddling for the overthrow of a legally elected official; conservatives claim that Allende was corrupt and his ouster was necessary for Chiles survival.
They also claim that his regime was brutal, but critics point out that Pinochet had a reputation for brutality as well. Its difficult to determine the truth of the allegations,
which is probably somewhere in the middle. Well discuss the varying viewpoints. Two of the sources discuss Chiles history in depth, with particular emphasis on its long history of workers
political activism. Its important to recognize that "Communism" in most parts of the world doesnt carry the frightening connotations given to it in the U.S.; is it a political party
that champions the rights of the workers. In Chile, the Socialist and Communist parties together "have controlled the main trade unions, student unions and peasant associations for long periods from
the 1930s onwards" and garnered approximately 30% of the vote in the 40 years Pollack and Matear discuss in their article (1996). Allende was elected by a coalition of five
political parties; the Communists and Socialists were the mainstays of this group, which "elected the first Marxist to the Presidency of any western hemisphere country" (Pollack and Matear, 1996, p.
365). The authors note that Allendes victory was possibly because Chile has a long tradition of participatory democracy that "shaped a political culture characterised by a high degree of politicisation
at all levels of society" (Pollack and Matear, 1996, p. 365). While the typical Latin American country might be characterized as having a "strong, conservative, Catholic Church closely identified with
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