CHILE: CONGRESS REFORMS PINOCHET-ERA CONSTITUTION.

NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs, October, 2004

Representatives from all sectors of the Chilean government reached an Oct. 6 agreement in the Senate, which would allow lawmakers to alter the "authoritarian bonds" of the Constitution imposed in 1980 under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). Senators from Concertacion, the coalition that has governed since 1990, the rightist

Alianza por Chile, and Interior Minister Jose Miguel Insulza, representing the executive branch, all signed on to the agreement, an accord that has undergone repeated failed efforts since Pinochet's departure in 1990. The willingness of the Chilean right to allow the constitutional reform was the element that finally allowed its passage.

Historic reform ninth effort since 1990 return to democracy

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