Repression and Resistance: 1973–90

Abstract

The policy of excluding the left from public life in Chile extended to the universities, which, while by no means dominated by the left, had been a vibrant source of leftist political thought and activity since the University Reform movement in 1967. Under the military regime, the social sciences suffered massive expulsions of students and dismissals of professors, with the notable exception of the orthodox or ‘neoliberal’ schools of economics associated with the Chicago Boys.