1973 Chilean coup defeated

Anyway the 1973 Chilean coup be defeated

What would happen to Chile in the aftermath

What would be the impact on Chilean democracy and relations with United States
 
If Allende and the commies are in charge in 1978, I doubt there's any way to keep Videla and the EA out of the Beagles and the passes. If the coup is defeated, the Chilean military would be purged and effectively replaced with militias, completely flipping the quality vs quantity contrast the Chileans had IOTL in 1978. Also, I doubt John Paul II would have fought as hard to keep the Argentinians from attacking a Castro ally.
 
Probably Allende would had still removed from his office. Congress had already some plans to do that. Allende anyway would be out of office after next election. Chilean democracy owuld survive and next president would be slightly right-wing person. It is then another thing how damages made by Allende are fixed.
 
Allende defeats Pinochet and purged rightwing militaries (replacing Armed Forces with militias is absurd, he was elected democratically as head of state of Chile and was a strong leftwing socialist, but not a revolutionary. Overall many officers were loyal to the Constitutional Order, as Carlos Prats and René Schneider).
Some Christian Democracy rightwing politicians are arrested because they plotted with Pinochet.
Allende revealed CIA connections wit plotters, creating a public scandal and international outrage.
In 1974 right-wingers tried to start an impeachment against Allende, as opposition controlled the National Congress following 1969 election (as they were planning that OTL).
But we have to consider some things:
- Allende was not a communist dictator, as many oppositors tried to paint him. A simple prove is that in 1969 and 1973 parliamentary elections opposition won and, due this, he made deals with it: his agrarian reform couldn't pass without Christian Democrats votes (and they voted for as, well, it was a good Christian thing) and CDP voted to make him President in 1969.
- Chilean people, although terror campaigns by communists and fascist terrorists, supported Allende presidency and policies. A simple prove is that during 1973 parliamentary election right opposition actually lost votes and seats in favor of Allende's Popular Front.
- Allende's opposition in Congress (Confederation of Democracy; CODE) was a coalition formed by a great mess of parties (rightwing National Party, center-right Radical Party, Christian Democratic Party, center-left Radical Liberal Party and populist National Democratic Party) with only target to take two-third majority to remove Allende and pass some authoritarian constitutional reforms, but its members were not all rightwing conservatives. There were moderates and also left-wingers who voted for Allende's reforms, so it's improbable that all opposition members are willing to impeach Allende.
- at the opposite Allende's Popular Unity (composed by Socialist Party, Communist Party, center-left Radical Party, leftwing Social Democratic Party, christian socialists Popular Unitary Action Movement, PUAM Worker-Peasant and Christian Left Party and populist Independent Popular Action) was a pretty compact coalition and this prevented major defections.
- some Allende's macroeconomic policies were bad for Chilean economy or didn't work, but nevertheless they were popular: nationalizing copper mines and approving the biggest plan against poverty in previous Chilean history were widely popular, especially among poors. Also political impasse contributed to crisis as Congress rightwing majority refused to collaborate with Allende (and precisely it lost votes).
- after CIA Scandal, we can expect a major popular backlash against America and pro-coup anti-Allende "CIA-puppets" politicians. Under a such popular pressure it's hard find many parliamentarians willing to depose Allende.
Overall, even if all opposition members voted for impeachment, CODE actually had not enough votes to reach two-third Senate majority to remove Allende.
So impeachment fails and badly backfires against proponents.
In 1976 there is a new presidential election: as the Chilean Constitution officially bar to run for two consecutive terms, Allende is excluded from the race. Unity Popular needs to choose a popular figure to win reelection and has two main candidates: Communist Senator, famous leftwing writer and Culture Nobel Prize Pablo Neruda (Communist candidate in 1970, before endorsing Allende) and Senator and Socialist Secretary Carlos Altamirano. Neruda had cancer before be assassinated by Pinochet and a Communist candidate would prove too controversial to win election, so it's more probable Altamirano. The CODE can choose between former Christian Democratic President Eduardo Frei and conservative National Party Senator and anti-socialist editor Sergio Onofre: as the later proved to be too unbalanced towards right (Christian Democratic Party is always the main party), Frei is chosen in a comeback typical of Chilean politics. As Frei supported Pinochet failed coup and Allende's impeachment attempt he can count on right-wingers votes, while his moderate policies allow him to have good relationship with centrists. However, as CDP and CODE shifts strongly towards right under Nationalists pressure, Christian Democrats leftwingers as Bernardo Leighton and Radomorico Tomic refuse to actively support Frei and probably start an alternative candidacy (Leighton is the favorite for the role) claiming to be moderate who can fix country's problems respcting the Constitution, promoting welfare and defending democracy.
Economic problems are a damage for Left reputation but they can say that rightwing Congress prevent action to solve them (and protect landlords,...) and CIA Scandal works in Peft favour.
At the end CODE split allow Altamirano to narrowly win popular vote but, as no one can win a 50% plus one of votes, the Congress has to choose between two most voted candidates and, thanks its rightwing majority, elects Frei to the Presidency. The Left is outraged as it was a long-term tradition for the Congress to simply ratifie the results, electing the most voted candidate (as for Allende in 1970). Thanks to this "electoral bargain", Unity Popular increases its seats in 1977 parliamentary elections but CODE retains a slim majority, due the promise to fix economy. Frei immediately forms a Goverment with militaries and rightwing politicians, with new Interior Minister Onofra launching a repression campaign against communists (who start some riots against "Frei fraud"). Frei restores good relationship with US and, in order to stabilize economy and get foreign loans, privatizes mining sector and starts an austerity plan, a move hugely unpopular. The international Recession of 1979 reinforces negative results. Also military humiliation during the short Beagle War against Argentina in 1978 is seen as a major blow for second Frei's Presidency. In 1981 Popular Unity wins parliamentary elections for the first time and forces Onofra to resigne. They try also to overrule austerity programs but the attempts are vetoed by Frei.
In 1982 Allende returns and win soundly against Onofra, who, as Interior Minister, assumesd the Presidency after Frei's death. His election is confirmed by the Congress and one of the first legislation is a bipartisan (it was long discussed before be adopted OTL after end of Pinochet's regime) constitutional reform toward a President elected directly by popular vote by runoff. Allende follows Altamirano's advice and adapted his socialist vision to Eurocommunism, finding friend both in Western Europe and in new freed Latin American countries. Reagan try to finance opposition against him but this is revealed during Irangate and boosts Allende popularity. During his second Presidency Christian Democratic Party returns to a more moderate approach, splitting from National Party. In Left camp there similar problems between socialists and communists. Neruda dies and receives a state funeral. In 1988 Altamirano defeats Patricio Alwyn mainly due Allende's popularity but during 1990s the South America Crisis that hit mainly Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Mexico hurts fragile Chilean populist economic policies, allowing Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tangle to win in 1994 against Foreign Minister Ricardo Lagos. Then follows a normal elections history.

Presidents of Chile:
28 Salvador Allende Gossens 1970-1976 Socialist Party-Popular Unity

Defeated in Congressional Vote Jorge Alessandri (Conservative Independent)
29 Eduardo Frei Montalva 1970-1982 Christian Democratic Party-Confederation of Democracy (Died in Office)
Defeated in Congressional Vote Carlos Altamirano (Popular Unity)
30 Sergio Onofre Jarpa 1982 National Party-Confederation of Democracy
31 Salvador Allende Gossens 1982-1988 Socialist Party-Popular Unity
Defeated in Congressional Vote Sergio Onofre (National Party-Confederation of Democracy)
32 Carlos Altamirano Orrego 1988-1994 Socialist Party-Popular Unity
Defeated in Runoff Patricio Alwyn (Christian Democratic Party)
33 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tangle 1994-2000 Christian Democratic Party
Defeated in Runoff Ricardo Lagos (Socialist Party-Popular Unity)
34 Ricardo Lagos Escobar 2000-2006 Socialist Party-Popular Unity (Presidential term is reduced to four years)
Defeated in Runoff Andrés Zaldivar (Christian Democratic Party)
35 Sebastian Pinera Echenique 2006-2010 National Renewal
Defeated in Runoff Jorge Arrate (Socialist Party-Popular Unity)
36 Ricardo Lagos Escobar 2010-2014 Socialist Party-Popular Unity

Defeated in Runoff Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tangle (Christian Democratic Party)
37 Sebastian Pinera Echenique 2014-2018 National Renewal
Defeated in Runoff Andrés Velasco (Independent supported by Socialist Party-Popular Unity)
38 Michelle Bachelet 2018-... Socialist Party-Popular Unity
Defeated in Runoff Evelyn Matthei (National Renewal)
 

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I've always wanted to see what Project Cybersyn looked like... So maybe we will see it implemented for all factories and economic activities, part of the plan to make the Chilean economy democratically planned.
 
Anyway the 1973 Chilean coup be defeated

What would happen to Chile in the aftermath

New elections would take place (did the Chilean Constitution at the time have any provision for early elections?), and Allende would lose. The Christian Democrats would retake control and things get a bit more relaxed, economically, poilitically, socially, et. al. Not completely towards the neoliberal end of things - maybe some sort of compromise that would still restructure the economy and reduce the barriers to trade and all that, but makes it more, well, European (in all its vagueness). So no Project Cybersyn for you.

What would be the impact on Chilean democracy and relations with United States

Chilean democracy would still function as normal, and relations with the US would definitely improve.
 
Nothing good. As much as Allende might have been committed to the Chilean democracy (I have my doubts about that and the fact he was killed has made the facts surrounding his actual thoughts impossible to get to as he was very definitely put on a pedestal after his death.) he was surrounded by people who were deeply antithetical to the idea, and by the time of the coupe was setting up a Cuban armed and trained pretoriate guard under his son in law ( A known DSG agent). A lot is going to depend on how the coupe failed, and the reaction to it. The other thing to consider is that Chile was just about out of money and the UP government could not get credit anywhere, the Chinese and the Russians both refused to extend them additional loans as they were considered completely divorced from reality.
 
I've always wanted to see what Project Cybersyn looked like... So maybe we will see it implemented for all factories and economic activities, part of the plan to make the Chilean economy democratically planned.
Yeah... no, Project Cybersyn would be extremely difficult to try and implement with modern technology, much less computers from the seventies.
 
Actually we passed the computational limits.
I wasn’t talking about the ability for a system to process the information, I’m talking about the ability to properly organize and predict economies down to the factory level.

Anyways, I don’t think a bunch of fax machines being hooked up to projectors is going to save Chile’s economy. It was just a faster version of the same failed centralization of other command economies.
 

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I wasn’t talking about the ability for a system to process the information, I’m talking about the ability to properly organize and predict economies down to the factory level.

Anyways, I don’t think a bunch of fax machines being hooked up to projectors is going to save Chile’s economy. It was just a faster version of the same failed centralization of other command economies.
Decentralize the economy then.
 
Because decentralized and planned economies work, horizontally.

Before the viability of Cybersyn makes planned economies possible.

Cybersyn while interesting was little more then a glorified computerized logistics network, honestly it would have been better if it had been absorbed by the military into a logistics program rather then the way it was used which was to centralize and control the supply chain. It was a revolutionary idea at the time, but its really nothing that would work in a decentralized economy. You need to be able to give orders to the supply chain in order for it to be at its best, Allende would have had to let the corporations use it independently of his regime in order for it to kick start the economy, and they were the very people who were fermenting against his regime.

It might have been sold to the SU or China, but even then it would not have provided the money needed to keep the country running. Without cash coming in from either the soviet bloc or from the American's the economy is still going to crash hard. Which leaves the system as a historical curioucity but little more.
 
Allende removed from office eventually due to pressures for political and economic reforms. The new government appoints the Chicago boys who get the ball rolling.
 
Allende removed from office eventually due to pressures for political and economic reforms. The new government appoints the Chicago boys who get the ball rolling.
It’s arguable how effective Friedman’s economic planning was, most of South America grew at a similar rate to Chile during the rule of Pinochle.
 
Honestly without Pinochet the Chicago boys would have been moderated, yes they would have been able to get some of their ideas into practice but they wouldn't have been able to get all of them. That would have been a very good thing, you probably would have seen much better growth rates along with less social destruction. At the very least the rate of change would have been slowed under a civilian administration allowing for time to adjust. As it was Pinochet and his lackeys allowed the Chicago boys free reign even when they knew things were going wrong for far too long in order to loot what they could and to gather some shreds of international support. Without that motivating factor they will be at least moderately restrained.
 
This is nonsense. Allende destroyed freedom of the press in Chile, punched children who heckled him, tried to prosecute his political opponents, had disastrous economic policies that led to inflation reaching 600%, and tried to dissolve Parliament. The people of Chile hated him by 1973. If the military coup is prevented, Allende is still a goner. Parliament will remove him from power, and pro-democracy President of the Senate Eduardo Frei (who was President of Chile before Allende) likely becomes President instead. Allende was doomed no matter what. If the military didn't take him out, Parliament would have impeached him. If that failed, the Chilean people would have overthrown him themselves at some point.
 
If Allende and the commies are in charge in 1978, I doubt there's any way to keep Videla and the EA out of the Beagles and the passes. If the coup is defeated, the Chilean military would be purged and effectively replaced with militias, completely flipping the quality vs quantity contrast the Chileans had IOTL in 1978. Also, I doubt John Paul II would have fought as hard to keep the Argentinians from attacking a Castro ally.
Brazil also had a desire to fight communism in south america.
 
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