Introduction

Abstract

As an overview of the themes which recur throughout this special Chile edition of Latin American Perspectives, this brief introduction attempts to synthesize the political significance of events in Chile since 1970. Norma Chinchilla, who coordinated this Chile issue with Don Bray, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Bill Bollinger, a graduate student in history at the University of California, Los Angeles, is presently in Peru to write a social history of Lima and film a documentary.