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| | Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley |
 | | After this brief survey of Chile's political history, Minister Arrate conducted a detailed analysis of the causes and effects of the military coup of 1973, in which Socialist President Salvador Allende was overthrown and Chile's constitutional democracy interrupted -- a hiatus which would endure for seventeen years. |
 | | Chile's economy was not only healthy, but also had begun adjusting to a new international economy characterized by increasing trade and investment across borders, two factors which smoothed the process of democratic transition in Chile. |
 | | In this session, Arrate provided a succinct description of the economic performance of the Pinochet years (1973-1990) compared to that of the Concertación government (1990-1999), concluding that although Chile introduced important structural reforms of its economy during the authoritarian period, in the final analysis its performance regarding average GDP growth, unemployment, and inflation, was poor. |
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