CIA • 1984

CHILE: THE EMERGING PARTY SYSTEM

STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/09: CIA-RDP85SO0317R000300080001-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/09: CIA-RDP85SO0317R000300080001-9 Directorate of Intelligence The Emerging Party System Chile: ALA 84-10110 November 1984 CORY 3 21 Chile: The Emerging Party System Secret ALA 84-10110 November 1984 This paper was prepared b~ 25X1 Office of African and Latin American Analysis, with 25X1 25X1 Comments and queries are welcome and may be directed to the Chief, South America Division, ALA, Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/09: CIA-RDP85SO0317R000300080001-9 Secret Chile: The Emerging Party System Key Judgments Despite their legal proscription, Chile's political parties are playing an Information available important role in the opposition to President Pinochet's 11-year-old as of I November 1984 military-dominated regime. In practice, the government has tolerated open was used in this report. political activity by all but Marxist parties, especially since widespread opposition exploded in mid-1983...