How Chile Voted Out a Dictator in 1988: Lessons for Trump's America
The No campaign chose joy over fear and won. It is the most underrated political lesson of the twentieth century.
On the night of October 5, 1988, Augusto Pinochet sat in his office and looked at the numbers.
They were not the numbers he had expected.
For fifteen years, Pinochet had ruled Chile with unchallenged authority. The 1973 coup that brought him to power had been brutal. Thousands were killed or disappeared. Tens of thousands were tortured. An entire generati…
