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Topic: Elections in Chile

	Chile. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Chile is bordered by Peru on the north, Bolivia on the northeast, Argentina on the east, and the Pacific Ocean on the west and south.
		Chile was the victor and added valuable territories taken from Bolivia and Peru; a long-standing quarrel also ensued, the Tacna-Arica Controversy, which was finally settled in 1929.
		Chile also became involved in serious border troubles with Argentina; it was as a sign and symbol of the end of this trouble that the Christ of the Andes was dedicated in 1904.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ch/Chile.html (3085 words)

	Chile
		Chile's Constitution was approved in a highly irregular national plebiscite in September 1980, under the military government of Augusto Pinochet.
		Chile's judiciary is independent and includes a court of appeal, a system of military courts, a constitutional tribunal, and the Supreme Court.
		Chile is a relatively homogenous country, and most of its population is of mestizo origin in various degrees, the product of the racial mixture between colonial Spanish immigrants and the native Amerindian tribes.
	savage-comedy.com /_Chile (5896 words)

	Chile (08/06)
		Chile has signed free trade agreements (FTAs) with several important economies, including an FTA with the United States, which was signed in 2003 and implemented in January 2004.
		Chile is a strong proponent of pressing ahead on negotiations for a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and active in the WTO’s Doha round of negotiations, principally through its membership in the G-20 and Cairns Group.
		Chile is an active member of the UN family of agencies and participates in UN peacekeeping activities.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1981.htm (4917 words)

	U.S. Dept. of State FOIA - Church Report (Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973)
		Chile had the extensive bureaucratic infrastructure to plan and administer a national development program; moreover, its history of popular support for Socialist, Communist and other leftist parties was perceived in Washington as flirtation with communism.
		In the 1970 election, for instance, the CIA used "fl" propaganda to sow discord between the Communists and the Socialists and between the national labor confederation and the Chilean Communist Party.
		The groundwork for the election was laid early in 1961 by establishing operational relationships with key political parties and by creating propaganda and organizational mechanisms capable of influencing key sectors of the population.
	foia.state.gov /Reports/ChurchReport.asp (14136 words)

	chile.html
		Eduardo Frei, son of the former President Eduardo Frei (1964-1970) swept to victory in the December 11, 1993 presidential elections.1 Chile is a multiparty democracy based upon a Constitution which provides for a strong executive, a bicameral legislature, and an independent judiciary.
		In 1990, Chile ratified the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights and formally recognized the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Rights Court for the interpretation and enforcement of the provisions contained in the convention.
		All non-Catholic churches are entities of private law, which means that they are compelled to organize themselves as "corporations," and to fulfill a series of legal requirements in order to get their incorporation papers recognized by the government.
	religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu /rihand/Chile.html (1340 words)

	Chile September 11, 1973 - Context
		On September 4, 1970 Salvador Allende won the presidential elections in Chile.
		Chile was a relatively developed country in Latin America, a country with an established democracy and an army that abided by a legal and constitutional tradition.
		While the elections of March 1973 were won by the UP, they did not gain a decisive majority.
	www.iisg.nl /collections/chile/background.php (808 words)

	Elections in Chile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Presidential elections elect a president, who serves as chief of state and head of government for a period of six years—four years starting in 2005.
		Parliamentary elections elect 38 senators (two for each constituency) and 120 deputies (two for each constituency).
		Chile has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, coalitions in the case of Chile, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Chile (303 words)

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		The election of Lagos is, however, first and foremost, a major accomplishment for the Concertación as a coalition of Christian Democrats and socialist parties.
		This election was the first not to be held concurrently with elections for congress.
		An important consequence of the election might be a revamping of the Christian Democratic party, which had suffered in previous elections from its dominant role in the coalition, a decline reflected in its defeat in the primaries.
	faculty.smu.edu /lmanzett/Chile3.doc (2129 words)

	Chile - Authoritarianism Defeated by Its Own Rules
		After massive protests in 1983, spearheaded by labor leaders buoyed by mass discontent in the wake of a sharp downturn in the nation's economy, party leaders sought to set aside their acrimonious disputes and make a collective effort to bring an end to the military government.
		By this point, even influential elements on the right were signaling their displeasure with the personalization of power, fearing that a prolongation of the Pinochet regime would only serve to radicalize Chilean politics further and set the stage for a popular uprising that would overwhelm the authorities.
		Given the parties' stasis, student elections on Chile's university campuses became bellwethers of political opinion.
	countrystudies.us /chile/88.htm (1521 words)

	City Mayors: Local government in Chile
		Chile’s current institutional structure was developed under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
		General elections were held in 1989 and the Concertación held together, delivering victory for its presidential candidate, the Christian Democrat, Patricio Aylwin.
		The last local elections for Chile’s communes were held in 2004 and resulted in a larger proportion of councillors for the Right over the Concertación.
	www.citymayors.com /government/chile_government.html (1482 words)

	Chile: Municipal Elections 1992
		By pressing the passing of a law that established that a council would be composed by an even number of members, the right-wing parties were expecting that - at least in their traditional strongholds of market towns and rural municipalities - they could, in the worst case, share the municipal power with the government parties.
		Extrapolating from the results of the 1989 general elections, and based on the binominal proportional system, it was not difficult for the opposition to visualize that a ratio (government/opposition) of 57/43 would entitle the conservatives to get 3 out of the 6 councilors returned by most of the country's municipal councils.
		When no candidate obtained 35% of the vote, the election of the mayor had to rest in the hands of the parties that had got their candidates elected.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /docs/chmun92.htm (942 words)

	ELECTIONS-CHILE: Bachelet Makes History, Marks Cultural Shift
		Bachelet, the candidate for the centre-left coalition that has governed Chile since the end of the Gen. Augusto Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, emerged triumphant in Sunday's presidential runoff vote with a healthy majority over her right-wing opponent, billionaire businessman Sebastián Piñera.
		In the lead-up to the Dec. 11 general elections, Bachelet quickly emerged as a favourite in the polls, prompting fellow centre-left coalition member and presidential contender Alvear, a Christian Democrat, to withdraw from the race and clear the way for Bachelet's selection as the Concertación candidate.
		While Bachelet took almost 46 percent of the votes in the Dec. 11 elections, she did not capture the absolute majority needed to win the presidency in the first round, leading to the runoff against second-placed Piñera.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=31789 (986 words)

	Politics of Chile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chile's Constitution was approved in a national plebiscite in September 1980, under the military government of President Augusto Pinochet.
		Michelle Bachelet won 53.49% of the vote in a run-off election on 15 January 2006 and was sworn in as President on March 11, 2006.
		Bachelet is a member of Chile's Socialist party (part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy) and, under the past administration, served as Defense Minister since 2002, and previously as Health Minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Chile (1183 words)

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		With more than two-thirds of its population living in cities, and a 1970 per capita GNP of $760, Chile is one of the most urbanized and industrialized countries in Latin America.
		The American Central Intelligence Agency had influenced elections in Chile dating back to 1958, but in 1970 the socialist candidate, a physician named Salvador Allende, was elected president.
		In a reflection of Chile's increased ideological polarization, Allende was elected president with 36.2 percent of the vote in 1970.
	www.lycos.com /info/chile--latin-america.html (607 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Chile elections leave Congress split
		In the lower house elections, the government's coalition won 48% of the votes, down from the 50% it achieved four years ago.
		The election was seen as the first major test for Mr Lagos's 19-month-old government, which is battling an ailing economy and 9.7% unemployment.
		The president blames Chile's economic troubles on an international crisis worsened by the 11 September attacks on the United States and a steep drop in the price of copper - Chile's main export.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1715205.stm (390 words)

	Socialist Bachelet Leads in Chile Elections
		"I decided to vote in these elections because it is a historic event where for the first time ever there is a great chance of a woman being elected president," said Luis Oliva, a 19-year-old who voted for the first time in Renca, a working-class neighborhood of Santiago.
		Morales, 46, a former llama herder and coca farmer who has a slight lead in the polls for the election on Dec. 18, offers what may be the most radical vision in Latin America, much to the dismay of the Bush administration.
		Starting on Dec. 11 in Chile, voters in 11 countries will participate in a series of presidential elections over the next year that could take Latin America further to the left than it already is.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/printer_121205O.shtml (1561 words)

	Elections \| Amcham Chile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alvear declined her postulation the third week of May, remaining Bachelet as the only candidate of the Concertación.
		Bachelet was formerly Chile’s former Defense Minister (and Health Minister previously), and Alvear was its Foreign Relations Minister, who led FTA negotiations with the EU and U.S. and formerly Justice Minister during previous government.
		According to recent polls known as of april 2005 they would be defeated by the Concertation candidate if the elections where today, but the new scenario can change this situation.
	www.amchamchile.cl /node/1029 (268 words)

	ELECTIONS-CHILE: Going After the Crucial Female Vote
		This has given a special twist to these elections, as was evident during the nationally televised debate between Bachelet and Piñera on Jan. 4.
		Piñera, a conservative businessman who has the backing of followers of former dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), accused Bachelet, the candidate of the centre-left coalition that has governed the country since the end of the dictatorship, of "playing the victim" because she is a woman.
		Given that Chile "is a sexist society, one strategy for attracting those votes is to demonstrate that Bachelet is not properly capable of operating in the public domain simply because she is a woman, quite apart from discussing her ability and intelligence."
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=31746 (1502 words)

	globalinfo.org - Dec 9, CHILE (#40879)
		SANTIAGO, Dec. 9, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- The absence of human rights issues in the campaign for Sunday's presidential elections in Chile is an "alarming" sign of the candidates' priorities, according to the executive director of the local chapter of Amnesty International, Sergio Laurenti.
		The frontrunner in the elections is the center-left governing coalition candidate, socialist Michelle Bachelet, who will face off with right-wing candidates Sebastián Piñera and Joaquín Lavín, and Tomás Hirsch, who represents small leftist groupings that are not represented in Congress.
		UDI legislators also opposed a bill "that would establish measures against discrimination and in favor of the right to life, which is violated every time homophobic hate crimes are committed, a bill that was approved by a majority in congress in May of this year," commented the MOVILH activist.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=40879 (1176 words)

	Chile Government Information
		Chile's bicameral Congress has a 48-seat Senate--38 elected, 9 appointed, 1 for life--and a 120-member Chamber of Deputies.
		(Chile's Constitution provides that former presidents who have served at least 6 years shall be entitled to a lifetime senate seat.) The last congressional elections were held in December 2001.
		Chile will complete in mid-2005 a multi-year overhaul of its criminal justice system.
	www.traveldocs.com /cl/govern.htm (565 words)

	Consolidating democracy: Elections to rearrange political map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An example is Chile's Michelle Bachelet, a socialist and daughter of an air force general who died in jail during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
		If she prevails in the December elections, voters would have endorsed the ruling center-left coalition for the third time since 1990.
		Fujimori was forced to resign in 2000, amid allegations that he tried to fix an election and ruled in an authoritarian and corrupt way.
	www.kwabs.com /artman/publish/article_2293.shtml (1229 words)

	U.S. Policy / Chile
		Chile is a well-documented example of covert destabilization by the U.S., and NameBase includes several books on the subject.
		In late 1975, a Senate Committee headed by Frank Church released a report on "Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973." By then so much information on Chile was in the public domain that the CIA had decided to trade a "limited hangout" on Chile for the Church Committee's silence on covert operations in five other countries.
		New Chile is an objective pre-coup analysis of the successes and failures of Allende's socialism.
	www.namebase.org /books73.html (582 words)

	RW ONLINE: The U.S.-Backed Coup In Chile
		This is the period in which Allende won the presidential elections in Chile in 1970.
		Weeks after the September 11 coup, the U.S. ambassador to Chile Harry Schlaudeman (who a decade earlier had participated in the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic) sent a memo to Kissinger noting that "the military government of Chile requires adviser assistance of a person qualified in establishing a detention centre for the detainees...
		Right after the coup, a U.S. intelligence officer directly involved wrote glowingly to his superior, "Chile's coup d'état was almost perfect." For the next decades, U.S. officials tried to deflect international criticism of Pinochet's regime, while professors at the University of Chicago ran Chile's economy as if it were their private plaything.
	rwor.org /a/1214/awtw-chile.htm (1364 words)

	Salvador Allende's Leftist Regime, 1970-73 - Chilean Intelligence Agencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The opposition expected the Allende coalition to suffer the typical losses of Chilean governments in midterm elections, especially with the economy in a tailspin.
		In the aftermath of the indecisive 1973 congressional elections, both sides escalated the confrontation and hurled threats of insurgency.
		And in late 1975, the Senate Committee headed by Frank Church released the report on "Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973." In 1982 the movie "Missing," directed by Costa-Gavras and starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek, provided a dramatized account of Charles Horman, a 30-year-old American free-lance journalist secretly arrested and executed during the coup.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/chile/allende.htm (2076 words)

	CHILE: parliamentary elections Cámara de Diputados, 1993
		Elections were held for all the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and for one-half of the elective seats in the Senate on the normal expiry of the members’ term of office.
		The 1993 congressional elections coincided with those for President of the Republic.
		President Frei took office on 11 March 1994 and his CPD Cabinet was sworn in the same day.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2063_93.htm (463 words)

	CHILE: parliamentary elections Cámara de Diputados, 1997
		Elections were held for all the seats in the Chamber of Deputies on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		Of the five lists and 11 parties vying for seats in the 1997 mid-term congressional elections, the leading contestants were the ruling Coalition for Democracy (CPD) and the main opposition Union for Chile Pact (PUC).
		Also in the running were the Left List, the Humanist Party and the Chile 2000 Pact.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2063_97.htm (280 words)

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