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Chile
Index
From 1932 to 1973, Chile was the only country in Latin
America
to sustain electoral democracy at a time when major
Marxist parties
led the workers. Its stable multiparty political system
bore more
resemblance to West European than to Latin American
models.
Chileans took great pride in their representative
democracy, and
many looked with contempt on their more tumultuous
neighbors.
Out of the turmoil of the depression, new political
forces
arose that shifted the political spectrum to the left. The
Conservatives and the Liberals grew closer together as the
combined
forces on the right, now more fearful of socialism than of
their
traditional enemies in the anticlerical camp. The Radicals
replaced
the Liberals as the swing party in the center, now that
they were
outflanked on the left by the growing PCCh and the
Socialist Party.
A small group of Catholics known as the Falange broke away
from the
Conservative Party in 1938 to form a new party, the
National
Falange (Falange Nacional). It offered a non-Marxist,
centrist
vision of dramatic reform, a vision that would take wing
in the
1950s under the name of Christian Democracy.
Data as of March 1994
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