University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository NotiSur Latin America Digital Beat (LADB) 9-15-1995 Military Opposition Threatens Chilean President Frei's Reconciliation Plan LADB Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/notisur Recommended Citation LADB Staff. "Military Opposition Threatens Chilean President Frei's Reconciliation Plan." (1995). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ notisur/12018 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Latin America Digital Beat (LADB) at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in NotiSur by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. LADB Article Id: 55940 ISSN: 1060-4189 Military Opposition Threatens Chilean President Frei's Reconciliation Plan by LADB Staff Category/Department: Chile Published: 1995-09-15 President Eduardo Frei's effort to breach the strained relations between his civilian government and the military appear doomed in the face of opposition from military and right-wing political opponents. The defiant stance of Gen. Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), who led the 1973 coup and 17- year dictatorship that followed and who still heads the Chilean army, has undermined the president's reconciliation plan and contributed to recent violence. The resurgence of tension between the civilian government and the military heightened during the commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. Confrontations between demonstrators and police resulted in at least one death and scores of arrests. Pinochet was named head of the army in 1973 by Allende only three weeks before leading the coup that toppled the president.