Chile Introduction Geography People Government Economy Communications Transportation Military Transnational Issues Print This Frame Chile Introduction Top of Page Background: A three-year-old Marxist government was overthrown in 1973 by a dictatorial military regime led by Augusto PINOCHET, which ruled until a freely elected president was installed in 1990. Sound economic policies, first ...

CHILE - A Country Study Search Chile Include word variants Use only words as entered. CHILE Foreword Acknowledgements PREFACE Table A. Chronology of Important Events Country Profile COUNTRY GEOGRAPHY SOCIETY ECONOMY TRANSPORTATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS NATIONAL SECURITY INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Historical Setting PRECOLUMBIAN CIVILIZATIONS CONQUEST AND COLONIZATION, ...

Material about Chile and its activities with the IMF ...

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A profile of Chilean intelligence agencies.

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A profile of Chilean intelligence agencies.

22 - The Railways of the Andes Climbing Though the Clouds in South America No railway journey in the world could present more astonishing contrasts than that which takes the traveler across the South American continent from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso. For hundreds of miles over the rolling pampas of Argentina not a single hill is seen - nothing but waving grain and luxuriant pasture as far as ...

History of Chile The first European to visit what is now Chile was the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who landed at Chiloe Island following his voyage, in 1520, through the strait that now bears his name. The region was then known to its native population as Tchili, a Native American word meaning snow. At the same time of Magellan's visit, most of Chile south of the Rapel River was ...

Lessons of Chile 1973 by Alan Woods 25 years after Pinochet's coup we are republishing this document which was first printed by the Spanish Marxist magazine Nuevo Claridad in 1979. Translated from the Spanish original. The conquest of Chile, begun in 1536-37 by Diego de Almagro and later by Pedro de Valdivia, was carried out with the same brutality that was used in other parts of the continent.

Chile. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...

Chile 1964-1973 A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead excerpted from the book Killing Hope by William Blum When Salvador Allende, a committed Marxist, came within three percent of winning the Chilean presidency in 1958, the United States decided that the next election, in 1964, could not be left in the hands of providence, or democracy. Washington took it all very gravely. At the ...

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History The Spanish conquest of Chile began in 1536-37, when forces under Diego de Almagro, invaded the region as far south as the Maule River. Finding neither a high civilization nor gold, the Spaniards decided to return to Peru. The discouraging reports brought back by Almagro's men forestalled further attempts at conquest until 1540-41, when Pizarro granted Pedro de Valdivia a license to ...

A liberal essay refuting the myth that Chile is a right-wing economic miracle.

Invisible Hand and Iron Fist by Alejandro Ruess Dollars and Sense magazine Nov/Dec 1999 After taking power in a 1973 coup, General Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile for 17 years. As of earlier this year, he had every reason to believe he would never be prosecuted for the atrocities committed by his regime. The Chilean military had granted itself a blanket amnesty, and Pinochet himself enjoyed ...

The Chile Coup -- The U.S. Hand by Peter Kornbluh iF magazine, Oct. 25, 1998 Since 1970, the Nixon administration had worked to de-stabilize the elected government of Socialist Salvador Allende. The CIA had laid the ground work for the coup d'etat. In view of Pinochet's recent arrest, the following article looks back a quarter century at the U.S. role in the political violence that shook Chile.

Sarah Hagberg INTS 4763 Paper #4 An analysis of Chile's pensions scheme in a post-Pinochet society Chile's transition to democracy following almost two decades of military dictatorship began under the slogan of Growth with Equity , a catchphrase synonymous with President Aylwin's government. Before the demise of General Pinochet's military regime, the number of Chileans living in poverty ...

Alice Bettencourt March 12, 1999 Welfare #4 Chilean Economic Reform: Beneficial for the Upper Class or for All To the majority of Chileans, the end of the Pinochet regime in 1990 was gift from Heaven. After seventeen years of a murderous dictatorship consisting of a combination of political repression but also with economic reform, Chileans were able to determine their own political and ...

Chile: Social Equity By Inke Fabian The new theoretical background In the Nineties, important theorists proclaimed to stop the common thinking in antagonisms like laissez-faire versus dirigisme or structuralism versus monetarism . (Rosenthal 1996: 8) Adjustment and stabilisation had been approached at extremely high social costs. It then partly was the East Asian experience which taught to ...

From the Socialist Experiment to the Military Regime the Structural Rupture of Social Systems By J rg Sancho Pernas Introduction Salvador Gossens Allende is often called the first democratically elected socialist president in world history. The period of his rule in Chile between 1970 and 1973 witnessed an attempt to construct a Chilean path towards socialism with great creativity and ...