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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    The Popular Front government was hamstrung by the lack of a majority in either house of the parliament, which allowed the Right to obstruct their policy aspirations. As such, there were some compromises made. Land reform was deferred in the teeth of Conservative-Liberal opposition, with the Left...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    The 1938 presidential election in Chile was a moment of high drama: the election where the Popular Front faced off head to head against the forces of the Right. Marmaduke Grove of the Socialist Party badly wanted to be President. He had no trouble persuading his party to endorse their caudillo...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    Alessandri's second term marked the end of a period of instability: he was the first President to serve out the six-year term envisaged by the 1925 Constitution. One of the mechanisms he used to quell any fractiousness from the Army was to take their guns and distribute them to the 'Republican...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    Colonisation began in the 1880s but was sped up by Ibanez yes. By the 1930s the main town had a population of 2000, and turnout in the 1941 election was just shy of a thousand. I think the explanation for why nobody voted in 1932 is that although the zone was incorporated into the Llanquihue...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    In the northern part of that dark blue area, there were Conservative-Liberal-Other alliances for both the lower and upper house - but in one of the lower house races the Liberals outpolled their Conservative allies, so I've given that constituency to the Liberals. In the southern portion, there...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    The 1932 parliamentary elections were held simultaneously with the presidential elections, but I'm doing a separate map and post because... well, you know how there haven't been too many parties so far? Well, now there are too many parties. On the left, there was a flowering of small Socialist...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    Juan Esteban Montero decimated his own popularity within months of taking office. His austere approach to the Great Depression did not achieve the quick wins that people had expected, and two policies in particular sealed his fate. The first was the erection of a new state pawnbroker service...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    I've finished the 1930s now and have come across a constituency where there was a 'Conservative and Liberal Parties' list which elected a Conservative and a Liberal (okay conceptually so far, but do you colour it in blue or yellow?) opposed by an 'Agrarian Party' list which elected a member of...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    One of the other outcomes of the Guggenheim mechanisation of Chilean nitrate mining was that fewer workers were required. This wasn't ideal politically, not least as the Great Depression was by now making itself felt. As a compromise, President Ibanez agreed to create a new company, owned 50/50...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    President Figueroa was spiritually the last of the old guard of Parliamentary Republic politicians. As such, his brother was the President of the Supreme Court, which nobody really saw as a conflict of interest until the power behind the throne, Colonel Carlos Ibanez del Campo, demanded his...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    Continuing the theme of 'the parties don't matter', parliamentary elections were held a few months after the Presidential polls, and passed without comment. 1925 saw the introduction of Proportional Representation to Chile. Seats were allocated on a provincial basis with between 2 and 18 seats...
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    Max's election maps and assorted others

    Do you know anything further about that Protestant party?
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    Indeed - some minor reforms in 1925 followed by more major ones in 1927 (which for some reason only took effect for electoral purposes from 1932) and then a trickle of modifications which appear to have been reversals of decisions made in 1927. This is also the first election for which I have...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    Shortly after the 1924 congressional elections, military officers began to meet and conspire against the sclerotic establishment - the key men being Major Marmaduke Grove of the Air Force (Chile is a key source of Incredibly English Names) and Major Carlos Ibanez del Campo of the Army. Both will...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    Indeed - things get a bit more exciting very quickly, but not necessarily for the better. One thing I'm continually struck by is how Chile acted as a sort of reductio ad absurdum to the idea that the forms of Western democracy carry with them the actual substance. Winston Peters has this...
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