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This 5 page report discusses the coup that occurred in Chile in the autumn of 1973. Victor Jara was a popular singer who was tortured and murdered along with thousands of other innocents. This paper gives an overview of the events leading to his death and the death of thousands of other artists, intellectuals and political dissidents. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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hold for a quarter century since the dictators brutal 1973 seizure of power in Chile, might finally be realized. Issues that have been swept under the international carpet for the
past decade were brought to the forefront of the worlds consciousness once again. In many ways, 1973 and the fall of Salvador Allende proved to be the dismantling of one
of the more productive and, ironically, democratic political systems of Latin America (Austin 26). September 11, 1973, ushered in a reign of dictatorial terror that would last more than a
decade. Victor Jara, artist, performer, and activist has served as a tragic example of the fate of thousands of innocent Chileans in the 1970s. After
the collapse of democracy in the early 1970s, Chile became notable for the far-reaching and cruel methods of economic stabilization and neo-liberal reconstruction instituted under Pinochet. Such programs and policies
rapidly transformed Chile from a highly protected industrializing economy to an open, free-market economy based on primarily agricultural exports such as fruit, timber, and fish. Most studies favored the ideological
explanations for that significant change to the states control of virtually all economic aspects of life in Chile. Most studies and justifications of the period present the argument that
Chiles exclusionary military regime "protected" highly ideological civilian technocrats from the resistance of industrialists and traditional grain-growing landowners--the presumed dominant factions of the upper class--as well as from organized labor.
What was not "protected," however, was the intellectual and artistic expression of free speech. The 1970s in Chile The momentous democratic movement that
brought Salvador Allende to power in Chile in 1970 is one that has been misinterpreted, misrepresented, and misunderstood for nearly thirty years. In the mid-1970s several of the most developed
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