Los Andes y América

Fernández, Teodoro

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“…First, Pinochet appointed the gremialista Sergio Fernández Fernández as minister of interior, setting the stage for the regime's "amnesty law" (Ley de Amnistía), which pardoned all those sentenced in military tribunals and establishing an equilibrium between the criminalities "of both sides." 19 In a parallel vein, Pinochet pressured General Gustavo Leigh to retire, thereby consolidating his political power. 20 In turn, by 1978, the stage was set for the regime's first referendum (or "consulta"), in which the Chilean public was requested to approve the "legitimacy" of the regime "directing the institutionalization process.…”

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Introduction: How Augusto Pinochet’s Constitution Came into Existence and How it Endured until 2022

Rinke,

Kressel

2023

EIAL

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For the past forty-two years Chile has been governed according to the infamous 1980 Constitution. Bequeathed to the country by its military dictator Augusto Pinochet, this text was originally designed to sustain an infinite de facto dictatorship in Chile. While this did not happen, and despite having been repeatedly amended since 1989, the 1980 Constitution is still considered an illegitimate text by most Chileans, as the 2020 Chilean national plebiscite has illustrated. The introduction provides a genealogy of the 1980 Constitution, explains the right-wing ideology underpinning it, and explores the scholarly debates over its supposed merits and the feasibility of its replacement with a new constitution.

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