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Chile politics
Chile is the state that was the paradigm of political stability and was also a model of constitutionalism, had two Constitutions. Was seen as the closest european model that articulates a party system similar to that in Europe the socialists and communists of the proletariat based on strong unions, which will come to power in the thirties with the Popular Front tactic, but with the right party. Before independence was a marginal colony, which was occupied by Spanish and vice-kingdom built Peru. Chile then became a separate possession under the title of Captain General de Santiago and the population was concentrated in the central valley of Santiago, Valparaiso, Concepcion. Colonial tradition was not very strong, colonial institutions were not very developed and developing capacity for self-government,so settlers came from Basque and Castilian which had great influence.
Last civil war ends with a short federal experiment. During this period, conservatives and liberals face, reaching practically to neutralize each other and as such earns another group led by Diego Portales, Chile binding that supports the world via the port of Valparaiso and trade. They called estancieros, estanco name comes from the mean state licenses to sell certain products in monopoly. As the nineteenth century Chile will be operated by an oligarchy composed of landowners, only to appear a century class-based mining in the north. Social structure is maintained as influenced by oligarchic families and the Catholic Church.
In 1987 the political parties begin a debate on whether to participate or not to plebisciteand then core most important opposition parties will form a so-called Commando del NO sought to obtain the removal of Pinochet. Will reach an agreement between political and military forces that will materialize in a constitutional reform aimed at fifty-four points, which was approved by referendum.
For the first time in 1999 national elections will be won in Concertacion by Ricardo Lagos, a socialist, who is elected president in 2000,but in the 2001 elections begin to lose ground, rising unemployment as an explanation.
The bloc of right-Renovacion Nacional will be the most voted, but in 2001 his place will be taken which is composed of young IDU technocrats, and along with Brazil has the largest number of games in the AL, but the actual number remains constant because alliances. Is a centrist character of Chilean parties with slight tilt to the left, influenced by electoral rules that promote coalitions. Nowadays,chilean cabinet includes six economists with research universities in the U.S. rank first. Most ministers were colleagues, students or teachers at the Universidad Catolica. Chile ranks in the top ten in world economic freedom, the overall tax burden falls most developed South American state ranks twenty-four in the world. President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile where he graduated with one of the highest scores of university history and he is a doctor in economics at Harvard University. This is only part of the country's political history of Chile and that it had, but regardless of its past, is a beautiful country.