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Brazil & Southern Cone - September 2013 (ISSN 1741-4431)
CHILE: Coup commemorations shake-up the election
Falling just over two months before the 17 November general election, the 40th anniversary of the coup that ushered in the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1974-1990) inevitably took on added political resonance. Legacies of the Pinochet era, like the privatized higher education system and the binomial electoral system, are key issues in the 2013 campaign.
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