The Fourth Amigo: Recent Books on Contemporary Chile

Notes

• Julian Beltrame, “Chile to Join NAFTA Club,” The Montreal Gazette, 12 December 1994, pp. A 1, A 4.
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• Warren Caragata, “Selling Canada,” Maclean's, 6 February 1995, pp. 14–16.
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• For an overview of the Porfiriato, see Colin M. MacLachlan and William H. Beezley, El Gran Pueblo: A History of Greater Mexico (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994), pp. 131–171.
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• For an overview of the differing economies in Latin America, see Vittorio Corbo, “Economic Transformation in Latin America: Lessons for Eastern Europe,” European Economic Review 36(April 1992): 407–416.
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• Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela, A Nation of Enemies (New York: Norton, 1991), pp. 166–171. Constable and Valenzuela provide a good-but-still-incomplete discussion of how General Pinochet was convinced of the need to adapt neoliberal policies. Hojman's point about Chilean historical tradition and its appeal to the military junta may be true, but there is need to uncover these early conversations in 1973 and 1974 to prove the point.
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• See Hojman, Chile, pp. 115–117. See also Archibald M. Ritter, Development Strategy and Structural Adjustment in Chile: From the Unidad Popular to the Concertacion, 1970–1992 (Ottawa: North-South Institute, 1992), p. 81, and Eduardo Silva, “The Political Economy of Chile's Regime Transition: From Radical to ‘Pragmatic’ Neo-Liberal Policies,” in Paul W. Drake and Ivan Jaksic, eds., The Struggle for Democracy in Chile, 1982–1990 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991), pp. 98–127.
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• For descriptions of the Chicago Boys, see Patricio Silva, “Technocrats and Politics in Chile: From the Chicago Boys to the CIEPLAN Monks,” Journal of Latin American Studies 23(May 1991): 385–410; Phillip O'Brien and Jackie Roddick, Chile: The Pinochet Decade (London: Latin American Bureau, 1983); Michael Moffitt, “Chicago Economics in Chile,” Challenge (September/October 1977), pp. 34–43; and, especially, “A Chicago Boy with No Regrets: Carlos Paut Ugarte,” in Patricia Politzer, ed., Fear in Chile: Lives under Pinochet (New York: Pantheon, 1989), pp. 200–213.
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• Arturo Valenzuela, “Chile's Political Instability,” Current History 83(February 1984): 68–72. The “pots and pans” protest was a massive demonstration in Santiago. A group of people angry with the economic situation in a few poorer neighbourhoods began to bang their kitchen pots together. Within an hour, the protest had spread through the entire city, creating a sound so loud that the military forces were ineffective in stopping it. Neighbours who had never discussed politics suddenly discovered that they were anti-Pinochet, and an anti-military sentiment erupted throughout the country.
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• David E. Hojman, “YES or NO to Pinochet: Television in the 1988 Chilean Plebiscite,” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 1, 1 (1992): 171–194.
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• Arturo Valenzuela and Pamela Constable, “The Chilean Plebiscite: Defeat of a Dictator,” Current History 88(February 1991): 129–132.
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• James R. Whelan, “Pinochet's Revolution: Will Popular Capitalism Lead to Democratization?” Policy Review (Winter 1988), pp. 76–79, and Valenzuela and Constable, “The Chilean Plebiscite,” pp. 129–132.
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• There has not been very much written on the women's centres, but living in Santiago one can listen to the radio station from La Morada on which women discuss issues of sexual abuse, empowerment, politics and help for those in need. A visit to any of these centres will also convince anyone that these organizations function extremely well. For information on the centres and their programs, contact Institute de la Mujer, Claudio Arrau 0211, Santiago, Chile; telephone: 2220784; fax: 6353106. Two sources of interest include the following: Marjorie Agosin, Scraps of Life—Chilean Arpilleras: Chilean Women and the Pinochet Dictatorship (New York: Red Sea Press, 1987), and Leonora Acheson Dodge, “Chilean Women and AIDS,” (unpublished).
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• For an excellent source on colonial economics, see Brian Loveman, Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic Capitalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 75–103.
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• Warren Caragata, “Southern Exposure,” Maclean's, 28 November 1994, pp. 56–57.
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