The Forgotten History of the Chilean Transition

Armed Resistance Against Pinochet and US Policy towards Chile in the 1980s

Bibliographic Data

ID3473433
AuthorsVictor Figueroa Clark (Johns Hopkins University Press, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume47
Issue3
Pages491-520
Publication date2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x15000401
OpenAlexW1919050433
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

The history of the transition to civilian rule in Chile largely overlooks or marginalizes the role of the armed and confrontational forms of resistance to the dictatorship. This article traces the pre and post-coup history of the Left's engagement with armed forms of struggle and evaluates the effects their incorporation into the struggle against the dictatorship had upon the regime and the Reagan administration. It concludes that armed resistance was a major factor in determining US policy to Chile during the 1980s, and therefore played an important role in the transition as a whole

Administration (probate law) · Democracy · Development economics · Dictatorship · Economic history · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Transition (genetics) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · Law · Memory, violence, and history · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

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