In 1973, Las Fuerzas Armadas de Chile staged a coup against President Salvador Allende, which led Latin America to one of the bloodiest and violent takeovers it had ever seen. President Salavador Allende served two terms and was known for being a Marxist, socialist, and communist. Because he was communist, it brought a cause for concern to the United States, who was greatly opposed to that form of government. The CIA even tried to help Allende's opposing candidates win in hopes that Chile wouldn't become a Communist country, but their plan was unsuccessful. The two candidates, whom Allende beat, made up over 60% of the peoples votes, which were all in opposition to the Popular Unity government system that Allende put into place (Chasteen, 2006). …show more content…
Eventually, rebellions did arise and create trouble for Pinochet's regime. A campaign started during his referendum of 1988 that was against the eight year renewal of his role as Chile's leader. According to the movie No, directed by Pablo Larrain, and is based off of a true story, in hopes of stopping other campaigns from making their case against Pinochet's renewal of being leader, he used methods such as intimidation, open threats, made people disappear, ordered assassinations, executions, allowed for people to be tortured, the destruction of property, and ordered protestors to be brutally assaulted and arrested, to get people to back down and vote yes for his eight year term renewal. The Central Nacional de Informaciones, or CNI, which was the last Chilean secret service agency, also admitted to being a part of over 50 cases of torture during Pinochet's regime (No, Larrain, 2012). The campaigns against his renewal ended up successful and Pinochet was forced down as his role of dictator, which finally opened Chile up into becoming a more democratic country. Pinochet's plebiscite of returning as leader for another eight years had lost with about 43% of the votes in favor. He then stepped down after 25 years of being the general army chief and dictator of Chile in March, 1988 (Skidmore, Smith, & Green,
Repeated miscommunications and an inability to have discourse resulted in fewer and fewer people willing to compromise. The tensions between the right and the left wing parties were getting to the point illustrated in the protest scene. The parties were no longer cooperating and listening to one another and were simply talking past one another. Once this occurred Allende was no longer able to get anything done, resulting in the democratic breakdown of Chile. Much like there was a breakdown between the two classes because they no longer listened to one another and were too focused on what they wanted and not what was best for the public good. We can learn a lot from this movie and also what happened in Chile at this time. We need to be able to know one another and understand where each of us is coming from. Without this we will only talk past one another and not listen to what we each of us is
Do you think if Eldred got indoor sport fields they would profit the youth and Eldred? Yes, because a lot of people would use them, and they would bring in some money! The indoor sports fields would let kids practice all year, they could earn money for the Otto-Eldred High School and the town of Eldred, and they could help our school sports programs. Also having indoor fields could keep kids active during any season and during any weather. Having indoor baseball, softball, and football fields in Eldred could help people be active and participate in activities.
During 1973, Chilean Congress and Judiciary took a stand against Allende and it was claimed that Allende’s governmental rule broke the Chilean constitution. After the battle with congress, the military stormed Allende’s palace and killed Allende while armed. In modern times, millions of people were inspired by Allende’s road to socialism and believers found it necessary to argue on the lesson but, furthermore on Allende’s behalf. On the other hand, the Chilean Communist Party thought the presidential rule of
During the movie No, the general environment in Chile was both repressive and free. This can be seen through multiple examples throughout the movie, however, for the purpose of this report, I will focus on two examples. The first example I will consider is the raid on the rally for No in which Renee’s wife was arrested. The second example I will consider that illustrates the freedom within Chile was the ability for the No campaign to even occur. I will then conclude with how this parallels to the democratization of Chile in being both free and repressive.
The US irrevocably changed the history of Chile through its intervention in the 1970’s. The intervention destroyed decade’s worth of potential development in Chile (not to mention the deaths of thousands due to installing a murderous dictator), to keep communism out of the Chile, and protect United States business interests. The United States’ interest in a potential intervention in Chile began in 1970, the year Salvador Allende was elected the Chilean President. Allende was a leftist candidate from the Socialist Party of Chile whom Nixon suspected of potentially turning communist. Allende made critical remarks about the United States’ involvement in Latin America, especially their failed invasion of Cuba, the Bay of Pigs. This, combined with
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution.[1] Code-named Operation PBSUCCESS, it installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed dictators who ruled
Throughout the course of history, several authoritarian leaders have risen to power and maintained their acquired power through physical, violent means. Two authoritarian leaders that have transformed their acquired power into dictatorial rights are Fidel Castro of Cuba and Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Interestingly, Castro and Pinochet differed in their ideals about the ideal structure of governments. While Castro advocated for a socialist, Marxist, anti-imperialist Cuba, Pinochet favored a anti-Marxist, anti-socialist, capitalist Chile. Despite their differing ideals, both shared several similarities in their efforts to establish and maintain their power. Both individuals rose to power in a similar manner: a sort of coup d’état. Both individuals maintained power through positive and negative means. Castro and Pinochet introduced several economic reforms that mostly benefited the people of Cuba and Chile. While these economic reforms allowed for the financial freedom of many Cubans and Chileans, the dictatorial rulers politically repressed the residents of Cuba and Chile. While many historians believe that Castro and Pinochet greatly differed due to their opposing beliefs, both dictators share multiple similarities in the ways that they rose to power, negatively maintained power, and positively
“The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the United States government.” (Daniel Ortega 1974) As has been discussed throughout the semester thus far many countries throughout Latin America have experienced a political revolution in some way, shape, or form. In the early 1970’s Nicaragua joined the long list of Latin American countries to experience a revolution when the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) lead by Daniel Ortega successfully overthrew the Somoza dynasty. Many people often times have a misconception of what exactly a political revolution
One of the most speculative experiences of conquest and dictatorship in the history of Latin America has been the socialist and dictatorial regimes in Chile. Chile has gone through multiple times of dictatorship, lead by the military, and also had lapses of a socialist government. The film “Machuca” by Andres Wood provided an insight of the series of social events in Chile in 1973, ranging from inter personal experiences to political issues and the Chilean nation. “Two dictators, Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet, both brought tremendous suffering upon the Chilean people -- one through his socialist policies and nationalization of
Central America's everlasting theme of violence, drugs and poverty influence the way many see as a culture of darkness and crime. The great leader of Panama, Manuel Antonio Noriega, was born in Panama City, Panama on February 11, 1934. Noriega’s early path seemed to be winding its way towards failure after being born into a very poor family and abandoned at the age of 5. These emotional and physical hardships could have determined the rest of his life, but Noriega did not allow these events to shape his future. Through hard work and sacrifice, he was awarded a scholarship to the Chorrillos Military School in Lima, Peru, one of the most renowned high schools in all of Central America.3 His major in education was military intelligence and counterintelligence.4
In 1818 Bernando O’Higgins invaded Chile from Argentina and won its independence. He governed as a dictator until 1823. Even though there was some conflict with the liberal-conservative party, Chile was able to obtain a national government sooner than other Spanish colonies. During this time, Chile was mainly under the governance of conservatives. Diego Portales became ruler and influential minister of Chile and founded the Constitution of 1833. He obtained order within the military, government and economy, but his strict ruling created animosity within the opposition. Portales was assassinated by rebellious soldiers on June 6th, 1837. Following Portales, Manuel Bulnes became president from 1841-1851. He won the presidency after gaining popularity
Chile’s economy was effectively owned by US corporation’s, and these corporation’s controlled the country's resources. When Allende nationalized copper the two main American corporation were financially hurt severely and lost a lot of profit. This concerned the US and Nixon worried that Chile was falling under soviet control and communism. One of Nixon’s fears was that the Soviets would have total control in Americas backyard. However, the major reason that the US instigated the overthrow was because the corporations did not want Chile to take over their own resources and use them for their own benefit. The corporations were able to exercise leverage over Allende because Chile was in the middle of an economic depression and Chile was receiving loans from American banks. Once Allende was in power these loans were stopped by US foreign policy and of course Chile suffered economically . At this point,
With Pinochet’s rejection of communist thinking he was able to obtain the backing of the United States which was a key difference in his ability to come to power in his country. This in comparison with Castro and the hard hand that the United States used to try to make crush Castro’s reign in Cuba. The United States was not happy that Chile had elected a well-known socialist into presidency and
This also meant that there would be more freedom of government documents; that had several connections between the U.S. One of the main purposes behind the reasoning of the change of government positions was that they did not want them thinking that they were under the control of the United Fruit; the United Fruit Company who was a profitable business had been affected by the downfall of the economy and made a major downfall for their business. The government had such an impact on propaganda and people believed that this would be the reason that the economy was starting to make its downfall. The Coup was also introduced and it was criticized around the world and created an impression that would be remembered as the one that would sought out to have anti U.S. sentiment within Latin America. Soon after this happened, there was many changes going on throughout the country. Castillo Armos was now in power and people were now realizing that he would soon be taking a dictorial approach by banning political parties, torturing and imprisoning political opponents and so much more.
Jose Salvador ALvarenga, a 37-year-old man who loves fishing, customarily made a trip out into the Pacific Ocean on November 18,2012 at 10:00 in the morning. He went out on that day like it was a normal day, planning to go out to the sea to catch some seafood, loading the boat with a little over a thousand pounds of equipment and a four-foot-high icebox to load his seafood in. Jose and his friend Ezequiel headed out into the sea. Everything was just fine as they got 75 miles away from land. Salvador let out his fishing pole to try to catch some fish; by then a storm was coming. Jose was being hard headed because as was packing he knew the storm was coming. “Alvarenga had been warned that a storm was coming, but there was little that would keep