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This book is a satirical exposition of the incompetence and fraudulance of the military in government. (DÜI-Hff)

In 1970, Dr. Salvador Allende, presidential candidate of theUnidad Popularcoalition, won a plurality — but not a majority — of votes from the Chilean electorate. Consequently, and in accord with Chilean electoral laws and constitution, the Chilean Congress was called upon to vote for the president, and it selected Dr. Allende as the country's new president. Soon thereafter a wave of opposition to his administration developed among business and middle-class sectors: Rightist political movements and parties, entrepreneurial associations, some white-collar unions, as well as groups representing both commercial interests and those of small business. Eventually this opposition determined that "the government of Allende was incompatible with the survival of freedom and private enterprise in Chile, (and) that the only way to avoid their extinction was to overthrow the government" (Cauce, 1984).

Translated by Carly de Ortiz. Evaluation of policies under the Pinochet administration; how they compare with those of the Frei and Allende administrations, 1964-70 and 1970-73.

The argument of this paper is that the emergence of military dictatorships, such as the Brazilian regime of 1964, is not caused by an economic crisis of dependent capitalist development. Rather, it results from a polarization and radicalization of the democratic regime by which it is preceded. Democracies handed down from above, like that in Brazil and other South American countries, favor the emergence of modern forms of autocracy

The argument of this paper is that the emergence of military dictatorships, such as the Brazilian regime of 1964, is not caused by an economic crisis of dependent capitalist development. Rather, it results from a polarization and radicalization of the democratic regime by which it is preceded. Democracies handed down from above, like that in Brazil and other South American democracies, lend themselves to polarization and radicalization. They therefore favor the emergence of modern forms of autocracy.

Our situation is a nightmare that doesn't end because we can't even return the house. We wanted to die of shame the day we had to take out our things under the threat of legal seizure. It was humiliating, we felt like thieves. But I know it's not ourfault. It's the fault of an unfair system. The government ought to admit it, to say frankly that it doesn't want the middle class to have houses [HOY, October 28, 1985, No. 432J

Der chilenische Wohnungs- und Grundstücksmarkt wurde unter Pinochet dem freien Spiel der Kräfte überlassen, was zu verschärfter Segregation der städtischen Bevölkerung und 1984/85 zu Massendemonstrationen führte. Die Regierung wurde zu Konzessionen gezwungen. Der Autor meint, daß die im Kampf gegen die Wohnungsnot entstandenen Basisorganisationen eine eigenständige und wichtige Rolle in der zukünftigen politischen Entwicklung Chiles spielen werden