Chile is a country located on the southwestern coast of South
America. It is best known in the Anglosphere for being the site
of a military dictatorship from 1973 to 1990 under General
Augusto Pinochet.  Pinochet dictatorship In 1970, the Marxist
Salvador Allende was elected president of Chile. After his
government was implicated in some civil rights abuses, the
Chilean legislature passed, on August 22, 1973, a resolution
stating that democracy in Chile was about to break down, and
inviting the army to throw Allende out. General Augusto
Pinochet, with the backing of the United States, promptly took
the opportunity, throwing the country into 17 years of military
dictatorship with civil and human rights abuses far more
grievous than those of his predecessor, as his regime forcibly
"disappeared" and tortured many thousands of political
dissidents. Pinochet held two referenda on whether the military
dictatorship should continue. The first, in 1980, overhauled the
constitution but kept him on as dictator. There we