Fear of a military coup made Chile’s center-left suppress activism for years

Evidence

After the vote that ousted Pinochet in 1990, the center-left Concertación, or Coalition of Parties for Democracy, discouraged rowdy activism, afraid that too much trouble could lead to another military coup. So Chile became famous for a “conspicuous absence of contentious politics” in the years when the rest of Latin America was rocked by rolling waves of anti-neoliberal protests. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 274

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with the later October 2019 uprising this book will surely cover; also echoes other cases where defeated dictatorships left institutions cowed. — connects to: Repression drives nonviolent movements to armed rebellion — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and…, 32; Fear of slave uprisings helped drive Latin American independence — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 217; Fear of organizational abuse paralyzed the left into ceding power to enemies — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 905 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Fear of mass literacy for the voter rolls helped trigger Brazil’s 1964 coup #exemplifies (0.82) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 105
• Fear of organizational abuse paralyzed the left into ceding power to enemies #expands (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 905
• Fear of slave uprisings helped drive Latin American independence #expands (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 217
• Aristocracies fail militarily because they fear mobilizing masses or strong generals #expands (0.74) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 671
• Repression drives nonviolent movements to armed rebellion #qualifies (0.72) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 32