AHC: moderates in Chile prevent Pinochet coup?

Pinochet was a moderate having personally put down the June uprising and the last one to join the coup. Really, the whole system and society had broken down. How the country would survive the Arab Oil embargo and quadrupling of oil prices in less than a month is anyone's guess
Ah, that's the challenge. ;)
By Chilean standards, Pinochet was a moderate having put down the June uprising and being the last to join the coup. Probably the midterm elections are the last chance to settle this peacefully. Everyone was arming
 
. . . How the country would survive the Arab Oil embargo and quadrupling of oil prices in less than a month is anyone's guess . . .
The Chilean coup happened on Sept. 11, 1973.

The Arab Oil Embargo happened late Oct. '73. It caused stagflation by moving the supply curve inward. The overall economy could simply do less.

On the other hand, the problems of the early seventies, like 1971, are to my mind a lot more nebulous. Here's a New York Times article saying that in April and May '71, the United States had its first back-to-back two months of trade deficits in approximately twenty years.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/1971/06/...it+1971&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
But if the U.S. is having trouble selling manufactured goods, maybe that meant some newly developing economies were being successful? So, it gets tricky.
 
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Yes, many countries have experienced periods where it seems like everyone is an extremist, or at least everyone who's vocal.

But then a couple of years later there are moderates again. So, I definitely think there's a possibility moderates could exert leadership, and just maybe leadership which carries the day.
 
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