How was Democracy restored in CHILE ???

General Augusto Pinnochet holded a Referendum in 1988,

People denied to him, he lost and fresh elections took place,

Michelle Bachelet won the elections by 2006

1. pinochet's military dictatorship came to an end after he decided to hold a referendum in 1988.

General Augusto Pinochet, led the coup in chile in the year 1973. Pinochet’s military dictatorship came to an end after he decided to hold a referendum in 1988. He felt confident that in this referendum, the people would say ‘yes’ to his continuing in power. But the people of Chile had not forgotten their democratic traditions. Their vote was a decisive ‘no’ to Pinochet. This led to Pinochet losing first his political and then his military powers. Slowly, the army’s role in the country’s government has been eliminated. The elected governments that came to power ordered inquiries into Pinochet’s rule. Michelle Bachelet was elected President of Chile in January 2006. A medical doctor and a moderate socialist, Michelle became the first woman to be a Defence Minister in Latin America. Democracy was restored in Chile after a referendum held in 1988 by its military ruler Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet expected the people to vote in his favour. However, the people resoundingly voted against Pinochet. He had to transfer power to a democratically elected government in 1990.....

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Pinochet decided to hold a referendum in 1988. He felt confident that in this referendum, the people would say ‘yes’ to his continuing in power. But the people of Chile resorted to their democratic traditions and their vote was a decisive ‘no’ to Pinochet. Thus , democracy was restored.....

In April 1975, when Chile was facing a severe economic and political crisis, a team of classical liberal economists made a "friendly takeover" of the economic policies of the military government that had saved the country from a communist dictatorship.

It is now widely recognized that Chile’s economic success occurred after the nation’s free-market economists won the battle against the hyperinflation they inherited from the Allende regime and then undertook deep structural reforms in the midst of the various economic and political storms that buffeted the country in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

What is less known is that some of us also participated in an unprecedented process of "liberalization from within” that created the conditions for the restorartion of democracy in Chile.

Chile’s democratization process faced two simultaneous challenges: first, to construct a democracy with limited powers that would protect liberty, along the lines of the balance of powers consecrated in the United States Constitution; and second, to convince a successful military government to turn over political power peacefully and constitutionally—something that may be unique in history.