Election in Chile

HAS PINOCHET'S GHOST BEEN EXORCISED?

Paul E. Sigmund February 6, 2006 - 5:41am

The election last month of Michelle Bachelet as president of Chile took place in what the local media described as a “tranquil” environment. Indeed, the atmosphere stood in sharp contrast to the turmoil surrounding the 1970 election of Socialist Salvador Allende (later overthrown in the 1973 coup) or the 1988 plebiscite that defeated General Augusto Pinochet in his bid to extend his authoritarian rule. Campaigning was strictly regulated...

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Paul E. Sigmund is professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University. He has published two books and many articles on Chilean politics.