It is likely that the effects of such a distorted vision of Chilean reality would not have reached extreme limits, if Allende had not made such a sectarian and discriminatory use of the immense power that the laws had accumulated and centralized in the hands of the President of the Republic in the last fifty years. The military "pronouncement" of September 11 was not the result of a civil conspiracy that won the barracks. In the action of the military, the country simply saw the end of anarchy. Although there is now an extremely critical view of the Allende period, there is no doubt that various measures of his government will gradually acquire importance in time. With the Pronouncement of September 11, a period of half a century comes to an end that may perhaps be called in the future "the rise and pulverization of the democratic middle class."
Keywords:
Chile, Coup, Salvador Allende, Socialism, Democracy
Author Biography
Ignacio Palma Vicuña
Ex senador chileno del Partido Demócrata Cristiano.
Palma Vicuña, I. (1974). Aportes para un análisis de la crisis chilena. Estudios Internacionales, 7(26), p. 39–67. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1974.17545
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