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Malvinas War
5. Pinochet: the Endgame
 
 
 
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1. General Background                                                   go to top of page


 

 
        For extensive links to Chile before Allende & Pinochet, go to the casahistoria Chile site
 
 
The Military Regimes For casahistoria links to the military regimes of other Latin American states at this time
 
 
Military history

 

  • For current developments to the national history themes:
    • Yahoo Chile news excellent resource for current news items (in English) on Chile
    • Lanic Newsroom: Texas Univ site for links to the recent news themes on Latin America in general.

 

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 2. Allende's Chile go to top of page




Salvador Allende Policies Overthrow

 

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3. Allende, Pinochet & the USA go to top of page


 

Operation Condor Go to the casahistoria Military Regimes site for links to the covert US - latin American military regime project in the 1970's


USA and Allende USA and the Pinochet Coup

 

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4. Pinochet's Chile go to top of page


 

Biographies
  • Augusto Pinochet  Detailed obituary and life account by Malcolm Coad for the UK Guardian
  • Pinochet obituary Video account from BBC
  • Special report: The Pinochet file BBC News Online report of 2001 records the twists and turns of the Pinochet case after the 2001 UK house arrest. Good background items though to unlock the dark secrets of the general's past.
Policies
  • Spotlight on Chile Concise but contains outline chronology and data.
  • The Chilean Electoral System Before 1973 Describes the democratic structure before Pinochet. Contains good electoral statistics.
  • Chile: The Laboratory Test The Chicago School of Economics got the chance to restructure the Chile economy for 16 years, under near-laboratory conditions. Between 1973 and 1989, a government team of economists trained at the University of Chicago dismantled or decentralized the Chilean state as far as was humanly possible. Their program included privatizing welfare and social programs, deregulating the market, liberalizing trade, rolling back trade unions, and rewriting its constitution and laws. And they did all this in the absence of the far-right's most hated institution: democracy. this article is a well detailed critique of the process.
  • Some Say Pinochet Wasn't Good for Economy By Katherine Ellison, The Miami Herald, 18 March 1998. Left wing analysis of the legacy of Pinochet's economic policies
Control Malvinas War see also casahistoria Malvinas/Falklands site

 

Films on the Allende/Pinochet period Finally:
  • East German Poster Art and Chile - from Stanford University Libraries. Interesting links to the "fraternal" support for the Chile left from the GDR. Source of the GDR posters on this page.

 

 

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5. Pinochet: the Endgame go to top of page


 

  • Human Rights Watch - Chile For recent updates on the legal moves to bring the military regime perpetrators to justice go to this page. Very useful links to current articles from newspapers world wide 
  • Pinochet legacy still in dispute BBC 2006 item by Nick Caistor shows how the figure of the former military dictator continues to divide Chile more than 30 years after he seized power.
  • Timeline: The Pinochet legal saga 2006 guide to the key developments in the legal battle to prosecute Chile's Gen Augusto Pinochet for human rights abuses during his 1973-1990 military rule and for tax evasion. BBC
  • Q&A: Pinochet and justice. 2006 BBC News item looks at the charges brought against Gen Pinochet and other issues surrounding attempts to put him on trial.
  • Did Pinochet kill or cure Chile? looks at Augusto Pinochet's legacy and its impact on the Chilean economy.BBC News business reporter Robert Plummer (2006)
  • "Proceso a Pinochet"  The case against Pinochet. Very full 2000 site (articles, photos, cartoons, documents) on the attempts to bring Pinochet to Justice  from the University of Alicante until 2000.
  • Special report: The Pinochet file  BBC News Online records the twists and turns of the Pinochet case and unlocks the dark secrets of the general's past.
  • Amnesty International - Annual Report  Amnesty International 2007 Report covering human rights in Chile

 

 

 

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