pinochet

For my very first on Alternatehistory.com, he is the challenge of this post: One needs to select two random historical figures and have these two figures switch places. What is meant by "switch places" is that their nationalities, birthplaces, roles in history, reasons for fame, occupations...

After the 1988, rather than surprisingly accepting it as otl, Pinochet refuses to step down and starts a white terror campaign to cement his rule and wipe out further opposition. The Catholic Church goes from criticizing the dictatorship to actively opposing it and does everything short of...

There are a multiple ways in which Chile, which had the similar economic potential early in the 20th century as Australia and New Zealand, could have infinitely become better off than the mess it has become in the past 50-plus years. I find some the best ways are: 1. Avoid the severe...

Former dictator of Chile Augusto Pinochet was held under house arrest in the UK by a warrant issued by Spanish judge Baltazar Garzón. After several months, he was released on grounds of ill health and allowed to return to his home country. Is it possible for him to be extradited to Spain...

Bear in mind this Argentina (and Uruguay also included) was basically taken over by Britain during Napoleonic War and it ended up becoming part of the British Empire afterwards. I am not looking for answers on how it be realistic for it to happen. Basically instead of a Falklands War in 1982...

Let's say in 1984 Pinochet is killed by a communist. What happens next?

When I read about Allende's suicide after pinochet's coup in 1973, i had a question. If there wasn't coup by Pinochet which overthrew Allende in 1973, how would Chile look like today? Would chile look like skandinavian countries, or it would looked like venezuela?

I'm curious, if we take as granted that chilean military junta were able to prepare and launch their 1973 coup, could any imaginable kind of more active and avanturistic Soviet government salvage anything in the first hours? I can remember many interviews with expelled or rogue pro-Allende...

The challenge is simple. Take a brutal bloody dictatorship in last few centuries, and replace it with a less bloody one that eventually leads to more freedom. Rules 1. Figure out when the coup/counter-revolution will start. 2. Figure out who will lead it. 3. How much less bad can it be than the...

As Pinochet only lost by 4% of the vote, and this could be attributed to poor campaigning by the Yes campaign, assuming Yes had a better run campaign and perhaps a poorer run campaign by No, what if Yes had won the election and Pinochet had been President until 1996? Only one other former Latin...

As we all know, Augusto Pinochet launched a coup in Chile in 1973 and led a US-backed military junta from 1973 to 1990 when it retransitioned into a Democracy. I'm obviously not super informed on South American history, but is there any way that Chile could have continued to be a military...