The Chilean Left’s Double Defeat

Fernando Ayala Since the second half of the 20th century that various political generations have sought to transform the social and economic reality of Chile. Both the paradigm of the Cuban revolution, in 1959, and the so-called “Chilean Way to Socialism”, in 1970, occupied an important part of the imagination of the traditional leftist parties in Latin America. In Cuba, the armed insurrection led to the conquest of power to Fidel Castro, in Chi…