DEMOCRATISATION AND STATE-CIVIL SOCIETY RELATIONS IN CHILE, 1983-2000: FROM EFFERVESCENCE TO DEACTIVATION

From: Ibero-americana | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Silva, Patricio | Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

The 1973 military coup in Chile did not only put an end to the Socialist experiment led by Salvador Allende. it also destroyed one of the oldest democracies of Latin America. For more than seventeen years, a military regime led by General Augusto Pinochet ruled the country in an extremely repressive manner. Political parties and leaders were persecuted, tortured and assassinated, while all kind of social organizations and associations came under state surveillance or we...

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