POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Meddle
9 Dec 2018
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These regimes were never elected to power. they seize power. Chile was a democracy virtually for 150 unbroken years. In the chile case, one feature that helped stability was the establishment of a large middle class. There was a degree of increase tension in the 1970"s: there was a polarization between left and right in 1960"s. Start of us meddling to assist the rise of the christian democrats and to prevent another cuba. : there is a communist regime in the region. Once the cuban revolution occurred, us was extra paranoid. So, us was already involved in the region but now was aux aguets. It is the most important example of the cia involvement in anywhere in the world. The frei regime come to power in 1968, he redistributes rural land from rich to poor. So he was less right wing than the us hoped for. This land redistribution program led to huge upheaval.
