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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
First Chilean head of state, won his head-of-state spurs by victory in the Battle of Chacabuco (Feb. 12, 1817) against the royalists. Might have done better as "Interim Supreme Director of Chile" had he been able to get along better with the aristocracy and the Church, though admittedly these were tenaciously clinging to exactly what is wrong with Latin American economies generally: being colonized by a sprinkling of large property owners replicating the economy of medieval Spain rather than the American-style flood-tide of smallholders that constituted a middle class without hardly trying, a byproduct of each running his own small show.
O'Higgins got himself exiled for his pains, spending his last couple of decades in Peru, dying in 1842 in the month of October.
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Nice job of googling. O'higgins was exciled because he tried to bring democracy to Chile and the Church and big land owners were not pleased with his efforts.
I'd love to see some valid sources for your figures on both Allende and Pinochet. Your post is in and of itself proof that no one muzzles the press - either liberal or whacko.
PS At the time, I told you that it would take me a day or two to get back to you since I was in the middle of a 400 mile move. Mayflies have such short little spans of attention, don't they?