Patricio Aylwin Essays

  • Chile Transitional Justice

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    movements in attempt to gain the ‘NO’ vote and won 54% of the vote. Soon after the end of military junta, the first democratic elections were held in December 1989 with the Concertación de los Partidos por la Democracia as the winning party and Patricio Aylwin Azocar as the president. The Concertación campaign promoted to seek justice for the past human right violations, to provide reparations for the victims, persecute the military regime and revoke the amnesty law, to release political prisoners and

  • Madagascar Vs. Chile: Comparison Between Madagascar And Chile

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    Eryn Schmidt A01229360 Econ 5150 4/18/14 Comparison between Madagascar and Chile Daily life in Chile depends on where you are located within the country. With it being almost 4500 miles long, the geography, the culture, and even the economy depends on the location. The north end, closest to Peru, is known for its agricultural resources, especially in mining. The central part, specifically Santiago, which is the nation’s capital and where most of Chile’s population is located, is the center of business

  • Chilean student protests

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    In 1973, Augusto Pinochet, Commander in Chief of the Chilean army, became the dictator of Chile, South America. With Pinochet’s 17-year military rule, came a number of constitutional and economic reforms allegedly implemented in order to stabilize the economy of Chile; this was done through the privatization of state controlled agencies, including the education system. Over the years, the quality of education in Chile dramatically decreased due to an overall increase in the number of private universities

  • Early Colonization

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    Early Inhabitants and Colonization The Atacameño, Diaguita, Araucanian, Mapuche, and Selk’nam were among the earliest inhabitants of present-day Chile. They were met by the Incas from Peru, who arrived in the north by the mid-15th century. Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan became the first European to sight Chilean shores, in 1520, after successfully navigating around the southern tip of the American continent. Diego de Almagro claimed Chile as part of the Spanish Empire in 1536, and in 1541 Pedro

  • Improve Education In Chile

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    existed an important reduction in the financial plan for the educational sector, which generated a decline and deterioration in this field; impacts were visible since the nineties until today. At the beginning of the government of the President Patricio Aylwin, the educational system was critical, and the quality of education was really poor. Therefore they implemented the programs to improve the situation of schools mainly in the basic levels. Due to the slow progress of the educational system after

  • Chile

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    Chile In this project we are going to summarize the main points concerning the history of CHILE , its independance, and bring the country to present day CHILE. We are also going to mention some important facts about CHILE"S economy. I. COLONIZATION PERIOD CHILE is a country located in the wester coast of South America, on the Pacific Ocean. It is known for the famous Andes Mountain Range that covers all of Peru and part of Chile CHILE was first discovered in 1520 by a Portuguese navigator named

  • Chile - The Pinochet Era

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    Chile - The Pinochet Era Background: Salvador Allende Gossens was elected the first Marxist president of Chile in 1970. He governed Chile from 1970 until 1973, the year of his death. The Allende government was not very successful. It approved sharp increases in the minimum wage whilst attempting to prevent price increases in consumer goods, in an effort to end Chile's economic slump. This resulted in disaster for the country, as inflation soared, strikes became common and opposition towards

  • Augusto Pinochet

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    Augusto Pinochet Year 11 Modern History Nick Nagl Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was the Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was the Chilean dictator who led the country under what most regard as a time of terror for seventeen years, between 1973 and 1990. For example, the New York Times headline “Augusto Pinochet, dictator who ruled by terror in Chile, Dies at 91” clearly suggests that he was indeed was a traditional dictator. However, an article published by the BBC which entailed

  • Death And The Maiden In Chile By Gabriel Dorfman

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    How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? Ariel Dorfman wrote Death and the Maiden in Chile, 1990, when Patricio Aylwin had just won the election, and Pinochet had stepped down as head of state, but the main plot had already formed in his mind by 1982, in the heat of the Pinochet dictatorship. Dorfman strongly opposed the Pinochet dictatorship, and, once it had come to an end, he believed that all the crimes committed

  • Isabelle Allende

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    Life before and life after the 1973 military coup-d'état in Chile marks the stark divide in Isabel Allende's life. Allende is a world-renowned Latin American writer, known for the passion and folk-tale eloquence with which she shares her country with the world. She uses the power of the word as a tool to express her pain, anger, and love. Isabelle Allende was born in Lima, Peru on August 2, 1942. Her father, Tomas Allende, was a Chilean ambassador to Peru, and cousin of Salvador Allende, the first

  • The Movie Machuca Sparknotes

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    Thomas Freeman Global Topics: Global Violence Professor Joyce Apsel 12 May 2014 Gonzalo’s Miracle: Necessary Violence and Whitewashing History in the 2004 Chilean film Machuca The passive young son of a well-to-do Chilean family enters his luxurious new home in a Santiago suburb. His opulently dressed mother greets him at the door, kisses him on the cheek and asks if he is happy in the family’s new home. The boy remains silent. This final scene of Chilean director Andrés Wood’s 2004 film Machuca