Politics of Chile
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Chile's government is a representative democratic republic, in which the President of Chile serves as both head of state and head of government, within a formal multi-party system. Executive power is
National Congress of Chile in Valparaíso
The Palacio de los Tribunales de Justicia de Santiago.
Figure 1: Structure and relationships of national and subnational government in Chile
Figure 2: Four types of relational exchanges involving local governments
Augusto Pinochet
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Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean army officer and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. He led the Chilean Army in the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in 1973 an
Politics of Chile
…executive and legislative branches. The Constitution of Chile was approved in a national plebiscite in September 1980, during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and came into effect in March 1981. After Pinochet was voted out of office in 1988, the Constitution was amended the following year to simplify the…
Official portrait, c. 1974
The parents of Pinochet: Augusto Pinochet Vera and Avelina Ugarte Martínez
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with Pinochet in 1976
Pinochet in 1982