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THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE Arnold Harberger loves in Chile. He married a Chilean. By his count, 100 to 150 of his students are economists there. He consulted for the Central Bank of Chile during Alessandri Frei's rule in the '60s, and for the Pinochet government's electric company in the past two years. His ties with Chile go all the way back to the '50s, when the University of Chicago, his home base, started an exchange program with Catholic University in Santiago. Arnold Harberger sincerely loves Chile...
Then in 1924 another reformist, President Arturo Alessandri, who was also stymied by a conservative Congress, was deposed and exiled to Italy by a junta. The next few years saw a series of military coups and countercoups. After a period of dictatorial rule under Colonel Carlos Ibanez degenerated into economic chaos, Alessandri, by then a convert to the conservatives, was re-elected in 1932. Since then, the armed forces have generally been ruled by the theory that as long as the President kept to the constitution they would respect his authority...
...documents painted a far more detailed picture. One plan that company executives had supported was the bizarre "Alessandri formula," in which Jorge Alessandri, a former Chilean President, would receive full but covert U.S. political help and thereby-if all went well-win the vote in the Chilean Congress. Soon afterward he would agree to resign. A new popular election would be called, in which former President Eduardo Frei, a moderate liberal, would, it was hoped, defeat Allende. Under Chilean law, Frei could not succeed himself, and therefore did not compete in the original vote...
...slender victory in the Sept. 4 elections, the Christian Democratic Party of retiring President Eduardo Frei agreed to support Allende unanimously in return for guarantees that Allende would preserve Chile's cherished democratic traditions. Then last week the runner-up right-wing candidate, former President (1958-1964) Jorge Alessandri, urged his congressional supporters not to oppose Allende. Alessandri's gesture was gracious but hardly affected the outcome. In the traditional secret ballot, the 195 Senators and Deputies present supported Allende over Alessandri by a margin...
Army Indoctrination. Even before the shooting, Allende had been struggling hard to bolster the nation's lagging morale. "No one need fear the new situation, save for that tiny group that takes the great part of the national income," he insisted. After Jorge Alessandri's withdrawal, Allende in a gesture of reconciliation visited him at home...