AGRARIAN REFORM AND THE LOSS OF DEMOCRACY IN CHILE.
1958 – 1973

Sebastián Vidal
3/12/2010
Florencia Larraín

Introduction.

This paper is supposed to answer the question, How the Agrarian Reform affected in the loss of democracy in Chile?, in 1973 after Allende`s government.
I will make a little description of the historical development of the agrarian reform, the principal precursors of it, the reasons why it was created and carried out and finally the reasons why I think it affected the democracy in Chile.

Investigation.

The agrarian reform can be divided in 2 parts, first between 1925 and 1958 and the second part between 1958 and 1973.
The first glimpsing of the agrarian reform was during the constitutional reform of …ver más…

During these period there were made a lot of things to improve the life of the peasants but they did not see those improvements so they decided to support the only political party that had hadn’t being in the power until now. The communist party.

Finally in 1970 the first communist president, Salvador Allende, was elected in Chile because the people were very upset with the broken