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	Article \| Chilean's Homespun Record Could Make Him President
		Lavin is also part of a new wave of younger politicians who appear committed to overturning the traditionally highly centralized power structures of Latin America, parlaying local government success into capturing national attention, and even high office.
		Lavin's programs are paternalistic and token, and that his statements about helping the poor are meant to confuse voters and hide his past as a low-level official in General Pinochet's planning ministry.
		Lavin bought the land and, in a joint undertaking with the Housing Ministry, built public housing for the families.
	www.manhattan-institute.org /html/_nyt-chileans_homespun.htm (1219 words)

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		Lavin succeeded in subordinating his supporting right-wing parties and their leadership to a campaign style and platform that centered around solving specific problems in education, health, urban crime, and other pressing issues important to the average voter.
		Lavin, for instance, counted on most of the 43 percent obtained by Pinochet in the 1988 referendum, while Lagos counted on large portions of the "No" vote.
		Lavin pulled the structured leadership of the parties of the Right toward his positions campaigning for increased spending for pensioners, for student aid in higher education, and for educational and health policies.
	faculty.smu.edu /lmanzett/Chile3.doc (2129 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Pinochet challenge for president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mr Lagos beat his right-wing rival, Joaquin Lavin, by a margin of just 2.5% and will be the first socialist head of state since Salvador Allende who was overthrown by Gen Pinochet.
		Joaquin Lavin, who once worked in General Pinochet's government, congratulated and embraced Mr Lagos on his victory.
		Mr Lagos limited himself to a brief attack on Mr Lavin, saying it was a good thing Mr Lavin did not wish to discuss the past, because the past so clearly condemned him.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/americas/606748.stm (463 words)

	World Tribune.com: Column by Claudio Campuzano
		Lavin, a former technocrat in Pinochet's government, called for the president and parliament to work together.
		However, Senate president Andrés Zaldivar, of the governing coalition, said that, even though "there might be good intentions of collaboration by the opposition, consensus will be more difficult, not because of the larger number of the UDI which represent a harder right, but because the debate will be centered on the presidency.
		An he added: "We will have to see what will be really the conduct of the UDI, which is going to lead and how Renovación Nacional will act," referring to another more moderate right-wing party which was associated with UDI in the opposition Alliance for Chile, which garnered 44 percent of the vote.
	www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2001/c12_12.html (549 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Chile right-wing comeback trips on pedophilia rift
		Lavin, the popular mayor of Santiago, is known for grinning under adversity.
		The infighting was so ugly that Lavin, a populist who bills himself as divorced from petty politics, intervened in mid-March and demanded that both party presidents resign to save the alliance and rescue his own ambitions.
		But the carefully knit alliance behind Lavin began to unravel last October when RN lawmaker Pia Guzman, a crusader against child abuse, said two politicians from the allied party, UDI, had participated in orgies involving minors.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040322-0500-chile-politics.html (771 words)

	Guardian \| Pinochet's disciple closes in on presidency
		On Sunday the populist rightwing candidate Joaquin Lavin finished in a virtual tie with Socialist candidate Ricardo Lagos, delivering a blow to the ruling centre-left Christian Democrat coalition.
		But Mr Lavin was also quick to note that his connections with the Pinochet regime were less important to many Chileans than the current economic recession which has led to soaring unemployment and crime.
		Many of Mr Lavin's supporters were born after the 1973 coup and described Gen Pinochet as if he were a benevolent uncle.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3941525-103596,00.html (580 words)

	12/9/99 BW Online--A Santiago Spring for Democracy?
		Their chanting was for Joaquin Lavin, the candidate of Chile's right-wing opposition party, and there were a surprisingly large number of young faces in the crowd.
		At the Lavin affair, the most startling sight were all the teens and children.
		But Lavin has had a field day, lashing the Socialists with it as a reminder of the "old ways" of Chilean politics.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/dec1999/nf91209f.htm (888 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Tight presidential race in Chile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mr Lavin has also benefited from a widespread disappointment with the performance of the ruling coalition, which came to power 10 years ago.
		Both Joaquin Lavin and Ricardo Lagos have done their best not to mention General Pinochet during this campaign.
		If the opinion polls are correct, neither Ricardo Lagos nor Joaquin Lavin will secure more than 50% of the vote when elections take place on December 12th.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/americas/552767.stm (724 words)

	Socialist Worker page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The choice is between Ricardo Lagos, the candidate of the governing centre-left coalition, and Joaquin Lavin of the right wing Alliance for Chile.
		Joaquin Lavin has run a populist campaign, but his record is far from savoury.
		A victory for Lavin would be a victory for the most reactionary forces in Chile.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /archive/1679/sw167917.htm (372 words)

	Chile Information Project -- "Santiago Times" -- Political, Environment, Human Rights, Economic News; November 4, 1999
		One family had received Lavin as a guest in their home, and in the course of the debate he showed the audience the key to their house the family had given him.
		Later, Lavin shared with the debate audience the photograph of another campaign friend he had made, the picture of widow of a bus driver recently killed in Santiago.
		Secretary General to the President Jose Miguel Insulza called Lavin a "good salesman," but insisted that 10 years of Concertacion government had done twice as much for the country than was achieved by the 17-year military government which Lavin so heartily embraced in the 1980s.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/chip/h99/chip.19991104.html (3876 words)

	Chile Information Project -- "Santiago Times" -- Political, Environment, Human Rights, Economic News; January 11, 2000
		Lagos led Lavin in the first round election Dec. 12 by a scant 30,000 votes, but fell short of the 50 percent plus one needed to be elected president.
		Lavin's populism is viable because the Right is recently enthused with democracy.
		The big question is whether Lavin is capable, with his teams and the support he has, of fulfilling the promises he's made.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/chip/h00/chip.20000111.html (4137 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		Lavin told his supporters late Sunday in direct reference to the Socialist-Christian Democrat coalition that has ruled Chile since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990.
		Six years ago Socialist candidate Ricardo Lagos tied with Santiago’s mayor Joaquin Lavin, (47,96% and 47,51%), but it was a completely different Chile.
		Lavin was a fresh face that promised change.
	www.mercopress.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=6906 (1335 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Santiago Mayor Joaquin Lavin traveled on Wednesday night to Rome to take part on the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Monsignor Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, founder of the Catholic Church's conservative Opus Dei religious order.
		Lavin, head of the rightist Alliance for Chile political coalition, is a leading Chilean member of Opus Dei.
		Lavin will also meet with his brother Andres, a priest living in Lithuania, and with his son Joaquin, who is studying in Barcelona.
	pw1.netcom.com /~mjr40/od/chile.html (244 words)

	Guardian \| Socialist wins Chile's presidential election
		Socialist candidate Ricardo Lagos narrowly beat the upstart Joaquin Lavin in the Chilean presidential election yesterday.
		The surprise strength of Mr Lavin will force the government to acknowledge the call of Mr Lavin's supporters to create jobs and deal with the growing discontent in many rural provinces.
		At Mr Lavin's campaign headquarters, the tears of shock were mixed with frantic mobile phone calls as the Chilean elite sought to understand how they could have come so close to taking power, then lose.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3951599-103596,00.html (485 words)

	December 12, 1997 - STRATEGISTS TAKE NOTE OF ELECTION RESULTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lagos, currently Public Works Minister in the Frei administration, is the leader of the center-left block within the governing Concertacion of political parties, while Lavin is the leading light of the Independent Democratic Union Party (UDI), or the "hard right" within the opposition political alliance.
		While the Renovacion Nacional (RN) party is still nominally the largest party within the opposition party alliance, the vote of Lavin's UDI party increased slightly while the vote of the RN fell.
		Still worse for the RN was the loss suffered by its key leader and presidential aspirant, Andres Allamand, who was handily defeated by Carlos Bombal in a key Santiago senate race.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~poli354/Chile/971212_Chile_concertact_97.html (515 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But despite this achievement, Alvear is not considered likely to beat the right-wing mayor of downtown Santiago, Joaquin Lavín, in the next presidential election, scheduled for 2005.
		The charm of Joaquin Lavín, whose ever-present smile is both genial and avuncular, is that he doesn't do politics, or so he claims.
		This article may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from the author.
	prospect.org /print-friendly/webfeatures/2003/07/goldberg-j-07-16.html (2400 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Chile's Alvear Bows Out of Presidential Primary
		Alvear, a former cabinet minister who ran an uninspiring campaign, made her announcement 10 days after Chile's right wing coalition, which has been in the opposition for 15 years, surprisingly split in two.
		The race is now three ways between Bachelet, a Socialist Party-mate of popular President Ricardo Lagos; conservative Joaquin Lavin, struggling to distance himself from the legacy of Pinochet; and newly declared center-right businessman Sebastian Pinera.
		Since ex-Senator Pinera has just joined the race it is not yet clear whether he or Lavin will be pressured out before the election.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-5-25/29056.html (319 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		If the run off is between Ms Bachelet and Joaquin Lavin, 56% would vote for the Lady and 27% for the gentleman.
		The public opinion poll is the last to be released before the beginning of the 48 hours ban on all electoral proselytism previous to Sunday’s vote.
		Piñera and Mr Lavin held massive closing rallies in Santiago promising to support whoever of the two is elected for the runoff.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=6889 (808 words)

	americas.org - Violence and Money Invade Chilean Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Supporters of the three main candidates, pro-government Michelle Bachelet and her opponents Joaquin Lavin and Sebastian Pinera, of Alliance for Chile, have hired thousands of people throughout the country to work in their campaigns.
		Recruiters, most of them young and unemployed, are distributing leaflets, putting up posters and attacking opponents and premises or destroying "enemy publicity".
		Donoso attributed the aggression to Alliance members in reaction to Bachelet's fall in the polls, while Maria Estela Leon said violence against her husband, Joaquin Lavin, had increased.
	www.americas.org /item_23323 (332 words)

	Rightist Won Votes by Losing Pinochet Ties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 13—Joaquin Lavin, a 46-year-old U.S.-trained
		Lavin to shift to the center, dispel any association with the regime and issue
		Yet analysts say it will be difficult for Lavin to carry out his bold promise of
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /chile/ties.htm (582 words)

	Large anti-government swing in Chilean elections
		Led by the Socialist Party-Party for Democracy (PS-PPD) and the Christian Democrats (DC), the Concertacion’s representation in the 120-member Chamber of Deputies fell from 70 to 63.
		The Alliance for Chile gained a swing of almost 12 percentage points, up from 33 percent in 1997, repeating its near triumph in the 2000 presidential election when its candidate, Joaquin Lavin, came within 30,000 votes of defeating Lagos.
		Within the Alliance for Chile, Lavin’s Independent Democratic Union (UDI), a far-right party mainly made up of Pinochet supporters, increased its share in the lower house from 17 seats to 35, displacing some MPs from its partner, the National Renovation.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/dec2001/chil-d28.shtml (1266 words)

	No clear winner in Chile
		With about 20 percent of the votes tallied, Lagos had 48 percent, and Lavin, 47.
		Lavin, the former mayor of Santiago's wealthiest suburb, Las Condes, ran on the
		Lavin's critics have labeled him a populist but admit that his surge in support was
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /chile/tied.htm (603 words)

	Catholic World News : Church Will Not Support Or Reject Any Candidate In Chile
		Socialist Ricardo Lagos and Social Christian Joaquin Lavin are heading to a second electoral round after they tied in votes in the November 18 election.
		Recently, Lavin's followers accused Lagos of supporting abortion and divorce -- which is not legal in Chile -- while the Socialists claim that Lavin, a strong supporter of capital punishment, diverges from Pope John Paul II (bio - news)'s views on the death penalty.
		Asked what would happen if Lagos wins and pushes for legislation in favor of divorce and abortion, Father Alliende said: "We are ready to talk to Mr.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=11962 (305 words)

	Chilean government to implement new anti-bail provisions
		Tough new provisions in Chile's bail laws due to come into effect this month provide a revealing glimpse of the rightwing orientation of the country's ruling Concertacion coalition and its Socialist Party president-elect Ricardo Lagos.
		In the course of the presidential campaign Lagos increasingly sought to match and outdo his conservative opponent Joaquin Lavin in law-and-order rhetoric, particularly after he failed to win outright in the first round of the elections in December.
		The legislative changes, which severely restrict the right to bail, were supported by all parliamentary parties and the judiciary and greeted with great fanfare in the Chilean press.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/chil-m10_prn.shtml (784 words)

	CNN.com - Chilean leaders face poll run-off - Dec 11, 2005
		SANTIAGO, Chile (CNN) -- A onetime political prisoner vying to become Chile's first female president will face a conservative airline and broadcasting tycoon in a January 15 runoff after falling short of a majority in Sunday's presidential election.
		Her closest rival was Sebastian Pinera, a conservative, Harvard-trained economist and the owner of the Chilean airline LAN, who had 25.5 percent of the vote.
		Another conservative, Joaquin Lavin, conceded defeat after garnering just 23.3 percent and endorsed Pinera in the runoff.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/americas/12/11/chile.elections/index.html (505 words)

	Pinochet: a Hot Potato for Chile´s New President
		But the former ex-dictator could now well become the first hot potato for the new Chilean president.
		Ricardo Lagos was elected president on Sunday with a mere 2.6 percent lead over his conservative opponent Joaquin Lavin.
		A fairly thin basis for a president who many Chileans expect will do away with the remnants of Pinochet´s dictatorship.
	www.rnw.nl /hotspots/archive/chi/html/chile000117.html (427 words)

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