On the 30th anniversary of the coup in 2003, Chile also celebrated two decades of practically uninterrupted economic growth and 15 years of peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy. The last two processes differentiate Chile in a positive sense from many of its neighbors in Latin America and in a certain way is an unexpected result of the struggle for democracy in the 1980s.
Even those post-1990 new democratic authorities who did not believe in the neoliberal economic model imposed during the military dictatorship continued and deepened it—with certain variations. This has resulted in good macroeconomic results. More than a decade of growing beyond historical rates, followed by another period in which Chile surpassed most of Latin America, which has been severely punished by different economic crises. In the political arena, on the other hand, after 15 years of democracy, the anti-democratic 1980 political constitution imposed by Pinochet is still in effect. Many of the institutions built up by him are still operating.
- Modernization a la chilena. En ReVista. Spring Number. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Harvard University, Cambridge, 2004.
