transitioned from Allende’s poorly run government to Pinochet’s military regime and how he condemns the fact that Pinochet used repression methods in order to achieve economic and political stability. However, although the author makes excellent points as to why Allende needed to be taken out of power as well as why Pinochet government was developed under the wrong conditions the author fails to analyze how the changes implemented during Pinochet’s regime affected the country as a whole. Instead, one can say that the author’s writing is bias and aims to directly condemn every aspect and action taken under Pinochet’s rule and the outcomes this had whether or not it had a positive or negative impact on the country. The article also spits out statistics and numbers but doesn’t explain how these statistics affected the regime or how they affected Pinochet’s regime or Allende’s governance in general (Gilmour).
Both of these source mentioned offer more of a sympathetic approach to the regimes that were set in place during the 1970’s. These periodicals offer a scope of what is going on in the regimes through a social view comparing the changes that happen in the country to how these affected the civilians of each region and therefore they either dose not analyze the short or the long term effects that these changes could have on the effectiveness or stability of their respective government or offer a bias viewpoint of the changes that the country in question is going through. On the other side of the matter, there are some periodicals that try to investigate the effects of the actions taken by these military leaders after their regimes were over. However most of these sources also fail in certain aspects to deliver a full account of how...
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All throughout the 20th century we can observe the marked presence of totalitarian regimes and governments in Latin America. Countries like Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic all suffered under the merciless rule of dictators and military leaders. Yet the latter country, the Dominican Republic, experienced a unique variation of these popular dictatorships, one that in the eyes of the world of those times was great, but in the eyes of the Dominicans, was nothing short of deadly.
...r had embraced a counterrevolution of economic and political order. The greatest symbolism of the fall of the government under Salvador Allende was the return of repression on the workers at the mill.
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.... The US state department cut international credit to Allende’s government, thus making Chile’s inflation rise into triple digits. By 1973 Chilean tanks had taken to the streets and refused Allende’s safe passage out of the country. He was eventually killed by an attack of his own armed forces. He brought this upon his self when the working class wasn’t happy with the slow rate that companies were being nationalized. This up rise had become the bloodiest up rise in the history of Latin America. Many of the supporters of the communist party had been rounded up and were tortured and killed. Many of them were put into mass graves. The military was the government for 17 years. They got rid of the legislation. This government had the US support except for the Carter administration. The actions that Chile’s military took set the tone for other Latin American militaries.
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American foreign policy directed and influenced its activities in Chile. United States although contradicted its firm belief of democr...