Will Democracy Come to Chile?

Chile’s plebiscite of October 1988 was a dramatic ending to fifteen painful years. Capitan General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, President of the Republic of Chile, notorious worldwide as a symbol of violence and repression, lost an election he himself had designed. He tried to declare himself the winner anyway, and his own military junta prevented him. In a continent that rarely sees good news, this was a story with a happy ending: Chile returns to de...