Describe the tale of democracy in the Chile
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Salvador Allende was a member of the Socialist Party in Chile, and was actively involved in his country’s politics for over forty years before getting elected its President in 1970.
He redistributed land to the landless farmers, reformed the educational system, provided free milk for children and opposed foreign companies taking over his country’s natural resources. Allende’s people-friendly policies were upsetting the Government of the United States. The United States was interested in Chile’s mineral wealth, including the vast deposits of copper. The United States financed a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet of the Chilean Army.
The coup was staged on the 11th September, 1973, beginning with the military commanders ordering Allende to resign or leave the country. Allende refused and the Chilean Army killed him. General Augusto Pinochet installed himself as the President of the country, and ruled it for 17 years. Amongst the people who opposed the coup and wanted democracy to be restored was General Alberto Bachelet. General Bachelet was subsequently imprisoned and tortured on Pinochet’s orders.
Pinochet’s military dictatorship was in its last stages in 1988. Political freedom was finally restored in 1990 and Pinochet was tried in the court of law for crimes against humanity. Chile has held four presidential elections successfully. In 2006, Michelle Bachelet became the country’s first woman President....
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Chile was governed during most of its first 150 years of independence by different forms of restricted government, where the electorate was carefully vetted and controlled by an elite. ... In 1990, Chile finally made a peaceful transition to democracy