Chile’s Elections: The New Face of the Right

Issue Date April 2000
Volume 11
Issue 2
Page Numbers 70-77
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The unexpectedly strong showing of media-savvy rightist candidate Joaquín Lavín in the 1999 presidential elections and the move to the center by Concertación candidate Ricardo Lagos suggest that Chile has begun to put the ghosts of Allende and Pinochet to rest.

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