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Volume 13, Issue 2.
Summer
With the recent departure of Paraguay's General Alfredo Stroessner, Chile's Augusto Pinochet is the only remaining political strongman in South America. Even in Chile today, political forces are negotiating a transition to a more pluralist society. Perhaps the event most responsible for this movement is the Chilean plebiscite of October 1988. Peter ... read moreQuilter takes us back to the month preceding the vote, and focuses on the role of television in a curiously restrained political environment. The story of those twenty- eight days gives us much insight into the nature of Chilean society under military rule, and importantly, what awaits it in the future. This is the story of the brief appearance of opposition advertisements on television, and the impact it had on the Chilean plebiscite.
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