Allende elected later in Chile than OTL

yofie

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If Allende ends up being elected not in 1970 but in 1976, I've thought of the following changes to who would be the Chilean president:

1970-76: Jorge Alessandri (OTL, he narrowly lost to Allende)
1976-82: Salvador Allende
1982-88: Andres Zaldivar (or perhaps Jorge Godoy Matte or Sergio Onofre Jarpa)
1988-94: Patricio Aylwin (after 1994, as OTL)

Does that sound fair?
 
I wonder if Reagan would try to topple him. Certainly, Reagan would not like him, but if he has been established for a while I don't see Reagan trying to topple him. As long as Allende doesn't actively ally with the Soviets or start supporting communist guerrillas in Latin America, he will likely be fine.
 
I wonder if Reagan would try to topple him. Certainly, Reagan would not like him, but if he has been established for a while I don't see Reagan trying to topple him. As long as Allende doesn't actively ally with the Soviets or start supporting communist guerrillas in Latin America, he will likely be fine.

He won't directly try to topple him, but don't rule out support for Argentina's government to start a border war, as well as significant economic warfare (sanctions, pressure on other countries and companies to do the same, etc.)
 
He won't directly try to topple him, but don't rule out support for Argentina's government to start a border war, as well as significant economic warfare (sanctions, pressure on other countries and companies to do the same, etc.)
Galtieri went for Chile first but the Pope intervened. So no Falklands War here.
 

yofie

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He won't directly try to topple him, but don't rule out support for Argentina's government to start a border war, as well as significant economic warfare (sanctions, pressure on other countries and companies to do the same, etc.)

I suppose, though, that if Argentina were a functioning democracy at that time, it would not even have started such a border war and stuff like that in the first place?
 
I suppose, though, that if Argentina were a functioning democracy at that time, it would not even have started such a border war and stuff like that in the first place?
That's true, but the Argentine coup was more internal. It could certainly be stopped though.
 

yofie

Banned
Chile without Salvador Allende as president

I've thought a bit more about this, and it seems that if Allende loses to Alessandri (a rightist) in 1970, then he may or may not be the leftist candidate in 1976 (and wouldn't win in 1976 either anyway). The leftists might get tired of electoral politics and take up arms, in which case the left would be discredited and the centre and right would be unified come 1976. If so, then Radomiro Tomic (who was a centrist candidate in 1970) could be the candidate for the centre/right in 1976, in which case he would probably go on to be president between 1976 and 1982. From 1982 to 1988, it's probably Sergio Onofre Jarpa (a rightist) who's the president, then Patricio Aylwin (a centrist) from 1988 to 1994. Therefore, in summary, it goes as follows from 1970 to 1994:

1970-76: Jorge Alessandri
1976-82: Radomiro Tomic
1982-88: Sergio Onofre Jarpa
1988-94: Patricio Aylwin
 
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