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A new constitution is signed into law that increases presidential powers and sperates church and state.
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Ibanez gains power in Chili and establishes a dictatorship.
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Communism is banned in Chili towards the beginning of the Cold War and this ban lasts until September 4, 1958.
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Carlos Ibanez is reelected with the promise to strengthen law and order (was ruler that established a dictatorship) and was president until 1958.
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Salvador Allende is elected president and becomes South America's first democratically elected Marxist president. He wouls rule until his assassination in 1973.
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General Augusto Pinochet and the United State's CIA team up to kill Pinochet in an attempt to eliminate Marxism. Pinochet takes Allende's place and establishes a brutal dictatorship.
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Augusto Pinochet steps down from position as head of state, bur remains commander-in-chief of the army. He is replaced by Christian Democrat Patricio Aylwin,
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Frei becomes president and works towards reducing the military's power and influence in government.
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Pinochet retires from the army, but is arrested in the United Kingdom on murder charges in Spain.
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Due to Pinochet's failing health, British Home Secretary Jack Straw decides that Pinochet is not well enough at the moment to go on trial.
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