Abstract
In 1964 the Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei had been elected to the Chilean presidency on the basis of a promise to enact far-reaching structural reforms in Chilean society. His ‘Revolution in Liberty’ was a model Alliance For Progress programme whose aim was to undermine the traditional appeal of the Marxist parties to the Chilean working class; as such it enjoyed the full support of the US government. The good showing of the Popular Action Front (FRAP) in the 1958 elections had surprised and unsettled the ruling class; thus in 1964 all sections of that class, including the National Party, joined forces behind Frei in order to head off the Marxist challenge.
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Notes
For an analysis of the PDC see J. Petras, Politics and Social Forces in Chilean Development, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969.
NACLA, New Chile, Berkeley, 1972, p. 82.
ODEPLAN, La Inversión Pública en el período 1961–70, Santiago, 1971.
Garretón and Cisternas, ‘Algunas caracteristicas del proceso de toma de decisiones en la gran empresa: la dinámica de concentración’, mimeo, Santiago, 1970.
For a detailed analysis, see ODEPLAN, Antecedentes Sobre el Desarrollo Chileno, 1960–70, Santiago, 1971.
R. R. Kaufman, The Politics of Land Reform in Chile, 1950–1970, Harvard UP, Cambridge, Mass., 1972.
D.J. Morris, We Must Make Haste — Slowly, Vintage Books, N.Y., 1973, p. 41.
E. Labarca Goddard, Chile Al Rojo, Ediciones de la Universidad Técnica de Estado, Santiago, 1971, p. 149.
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Roxborough, I., O’Brien, P., Roddick, J. (1977). The Crisis of 1970: Party and Society. In: Chile: The State and Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15715-0_3
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