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¿Mision Cumplida? Civil Military Relations and the Chilean Political Transition*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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The armed forces have reconstructed authentic democracy. They have once again definitively carried out their mission…. I love this country more than Life itself.
Captain General Augusto Pinochet11 September 1989The Constitution of 1980 does not meet, in its elaboration of the manner in which it was ratified, the essential conditions required by constitutional doctrine for the existence of a legitimate political order based on the rule of law.
Francisco Cumplido C. (1983)Minister of Justice (1990)On 11 March 1990, Patricio Aylwin took office as Chile's first elected president since 1970. Chile thus joined the list of Latin American nations making a transition from military to civilian government. Like the civilian governments in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia, El Salvador and Guatemala, Chile's new government faced the challenge of returning the armed forces to a less central role in politics and reducing their institutional prerogatives.
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This article is a revised version of a paper prepared for the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, April 1991. The author gratefully acknowledges comments by Thomas M. Davies Jr., Paul Drake, Ivan Jaksic, Elizabeth Lira, and Augusto Varas on earlier versions of the paper as well as comments by three anonymous reviewers for this journal prior to publication. Consuelo Swett served as research assistant for this study.
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