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The End of the Alliance for Progress and the Origins of the Human Rights Issue in U.S.-Latin American Relations
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Andrew J. Kirkendall
Published: 14 June 2022
...The Nixon administration sought a return to Eisenhower era policies in Latin America. In response to the Vietnam War and a military coup in Chile, liberal Democrats begin to find in human rights a new issue around which to assert US moral leadership in the Cold War. Containment Policy Figueres...
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Reform and Radicalization
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Tanya Harmer
Published: 13 April 2020
...Chapter four examines the emergence of a revolutionary left in Chile in the first years of Eduardo Frei’s presidency. Although this process would not dominate left-wing politics at a national level until later in 1960s, it resonated soon after Allende’s 1964 electoral defeat, influenced both...
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The Battle for Chile
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Tanya Harmer
Published: 13 April 2020
...Chapter eight charts the build-up to the right-wing military coup in Chile on 11 September 1973. It examines the progressive division of the Left amid conspiracies against the government, focusing in, as Beatriz did, on the impending prospect of a coup and the strategies Allende’s team employed...
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Onward March
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Tanya Harmer
Published: 13 April 2020
... dictatorship, Chilean Left’s evolution into the 1980s, and the transition to democracy in Chile in 1990. It asks what Beatriz would have made of these developments and why her life is relevant both for history and for the present. It ends by looking at Beatriz’s legacy in the context of 21st century...
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Conclusion
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Tanya Harmer
Published: 10 October 2011
...This book concludes with a discussion of how the author was asked whether her researching the details of Cuba's role in Chile meant that she thought the United States was justified in destabilizing Chilean democracy. The author's immediate answer was, and is, a resounding no. However, beyond...
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Revolution and Counterrevolution
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Kyle Burke
Published: 04 June 2018
... Vietnam Stroessner Alfredo World Anti Communist League WACL Argentina Chile De Jaegher Raymond Edwards Lee Guomindang South Korea Taiwan Republic of China Young Americans for Freedom YAF American Council for World Freedom ACWF American Security Council Brazil British Guiana Christian Anti...
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Published: 01 February 2011
...This chapter argues that the antecedents to direct French trade with Peru and Chile in the first decades of the eighteenth century lay in the last three decades of the seventeenth. From the 1670s to the early 1690s, simultaneously pushed by imperial efforts to curtail Caribbean piracy and pulled...
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Published: 28 March 2023
... constitution in Chile, may present a unique opportunity for Mapuche CSOs. The 2019 protests could enable alliances between CSOs engaging in "civic" participation and non-Indigenous sectors of Chilean civil society, potentially shifting political opportunities in favor of Mapuche civil society and allowing...
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Published: 08 August 2023
... to their subjective impressions of Chilean realities. Allende Salvador Chile La realidad médico social chilena Marxist social theory Popular Front Chile social justice Welfare state anarchism Chilean Medical Association AMECH Gandulfo Juan liberal internationalism Orrego Luco Augusto Radical Party Chile...
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Published: 08 August 2023
... network. Meanwhile, in Chile, the overthrow of Allende in 1973 not only meant a reversal of hard-won progress in health equity but also scattered a group of health workers into exile across the world, many to be absorbed into the growing network of Latin American social medicine. The experience...
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Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice
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Alan McPherson
Published online: 17 September 2020
Published in print: 21 September 2019
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Published: 10 October 2011
... looking at Chile. Indeed they were, but not necessarily with the admiration that Allende implied. Beyond Cuba, and across the Americas, Allende's election simultaneously sparked jubilation, terror, respect, and apprehension. While the majority of Latin America's leaders adopted moderate postures toward...
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Introduction
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Tanya Harmer
Published: 13 April 2020
... in Chile; youth in Latin America’s long sixties; the revolutionary left; and the history of revolutionary women and gender. In doing so, it suggests a new way of examining the Cold War as lived experience. Allende Bussi Beatriz Ximena Allende Gossens Salvador Fernández Oña Luis military Chilean women...
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Youth and Women
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Tanya Harmer
Published: 13 April 2020
...Having returned to Santiago to undertake practical medical training, Beatriz’s extra-curricular life became subsumed in her father’s third presidential campaign. Chapter three zooms in on Chile’s 1964 presidential election, examining the way it intersected with Beatriz’s life and how she...
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Revolutionary Upheaval
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Tanya Harmer
Published: 13 April 2020
...Chapter six examines revolutionary upheaval in the last years of Eduardo Frei’s presidency and Beatriz’s role in it while remaining committed to the ELN’s Bolivian project and Cuba’s revolutionary regime. It describes the fragmentation of the Left and the growing specter of violence in Chile...
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Disillusionment
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Tanya Harmer
Published: 13 April 2020
... on the ground in Chile was decimated by repression. The Chilean Left in exile was also mired in factionalism and recrimination; its revolutionary project more contested, ambiguous, and distant than ever. From Havana, Beatriz was pessimistic about the future and the prospects for revolutionary change...
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Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship
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Patrick Barr-Melej
Published online: 18 January 2018
Published in print: 15 May 2017
..., transnationally connected counterculture smashed onto the scene. Contributing to a surging historiography of the era’s Latin American counterculture, Psychedelic Chile draws on media and firsthand interviews in documenting the intertwining of youth and counterculture with discourses rooted...
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Published: 10 October 2011
...This chapter discusses the time when Fidel Castro heard that Salvador Allende had narrowly won Chile's presidential election late at night on 4 September 1970. “The miracle has happened!” Castro exclaimed, when Luis Fernandez Ona walked through the door. Ona then joined Castro, Manuel Pineiro...
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Published: 10 October 2011
...This chapter argues that achieving unity and guaranteeing the success of a coup in Chile still remained a big “if” in mid-1973. In the months between May and September 1973, U.S. officials monitoring plotting in the country had been relatively unimpressed with the progress toward this goal...
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Assessing the Relationship Between Civilian Control of the Military and the Consolidation of Democracy
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Harold A. Trinkunas
Published: 31 October 2005
...This concluding chapter compares the Venezuelan experience against better-understood cases of democratic civil-military relations: Chile (1989 and after), Argentina (1983 and after), and Spain (1975 and after). These comparative cases illustrate the impact of regime leverage and the process...