WI: No Coup Against Allende In Chile

Oh yah the brutality continued unabated until he stepped down. However, the body count was highest in 1973 and tapered off as their were fewer dissents in the country (fled abroad, gone underground, eliminated):(

Which is how it tends to work. Much of the violence of Franco's White Terror and impieza policy took place during the initial years of his dictatorship following the end of the Spanish Civil War and during the war itself.

Back on the main topic if, as DValdron suggests, you end up with a rotating series of coalitions similar to Italy it wouldn't be surprising if there was also a rise in low-level political violence from all ends of the spectrum. There's going to be at least some of the more radical Communists who will see Chile as ripe for some sort of violent revolution and, as earlier assassinations show, elements within the military and those who backed the coup OTL who will feel similarly. It probably won't reach late Weimar levels of street fighting but it would probably be something like what was seen in Italy during the 70s and 80s or West Germany with the Red Army Faction and Bader-Meinhoff but from all sides involved.
 
Though apparently there was a lot of horrific tortures being done like rape dogs, plus Operation Condor, where he worked with other dictators in the Southern Cone to kill off political opponents...

Secret police everywhere sometimes does evil and illegal things, democratic countries included... USA regularly experimented on its own citizens, for example...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

Can anybody name one country, democratic or not, that never killed any innocent person? Liechtenstein? xd
 
Secret police everywhere sometimes does evil and illegal things, democratic countries included... USA regularly experimented on its own citizens, for example...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

Can anybody name one country, democratic or not, that never killed any innocent person? Liechtenstein? xd

What's your time frame?

If you look at France through its history back to Charlemagne, it's a bloodbath.

On the other hand, the French Second Republic was wracked by moral convulsions over the Dreyfus affair. One man, and he wasn't actually killed.

The Fifth French Republic arguably has not murdered French citizens for the crime of dissent.

Canada doesn't seem to have engaged in any political murders.

Post-war Germany, Post-war Belgium or Netherlands. Post communism Czechoslovakia and its descendants.

The fact that political murder may be common doesn't make it right, to render an analogy the reality that rape is common doesn't make it right. Regular murder happens often, but we still disapprove.
 
Back on the main topic if, as DValdron suggests, you end up with a rotating series of coalitions similar to Italy it wouldn't be surprising if there was also a rise in low-level political violence from all ends of the spectrum. There's going to be at least some of the more radical Communists who will see Chile as ripe for some sort of violent revolution and, as earlier assassinations show, elements within the military and those who backed the coup OTL who will feel similarly. It probably won't reach late Weimar levels of street fighting but it would probably be something like what was seen in Italy during the 70s and 80s or West Germany with the Red Army Faction and Bader-Meinhoff but from all sides involved.

Interesting line of speculation. And as pointed out, there was an accumulating precedent of assassinations. I'm not sure that it would rise to Italy's level, the population is dramatically smaller, the social networks are different.
 
Which is how it tends to work. Much of the violence of Franco's White Terror and impieza policy took place during the initial years of his dictatorship following the end of the Spanish Civil War and during the war itself.

Back on the main topic if, as DValdron suggests, you end up with a rotating series of coalitions similar to Italy it wouldn't be surprising if there was also a rise in low-level political violence from all ends of the spectrum. There's going to be at least some of the more radical Communists who will see Chile as ripe for some sort of violent revolution and, as earlier assassinations show, elements within the military and those who backed the coup OTL who will feel similarly. It probably won't reach late Weimar levels of street fighting but it would probably be something like what was seen in Italy during the 70s and 80s or West Germany with the Red Army Faction and Bader-Meinhoff but from all sides involved.

There already were rising levels of low level political violence when the coupe went down. MIR and its 'offshoot' VOP (Vanguardia Organizada del Pueblo) were engaged in bombings, armed attacks on business's, and at least one assassination since they were founded. While they never reached the levels of the West German terrorist organizations, they were active and around. Though given that eight hundred of the murdered and disappeared were MIR 'activists'... i really do wonder just how successful they would be if the Carabinero's were unleashed on them. The fact that Andres Pascal Allende was one of the leaders of the movement, even if he only became the leader of it after the coupe, is pretty telling.
 
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