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From Dictatorship to Democracy: Four Chilean Women’s Memories

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A law school dean, a university president, a scholarly judge, and the head of the Foreign Ministry division in charge of Chile’s frontiers agree: The Constitution of 1980 was the initial turning point in Chile’s transition from autocracy to pluralism.

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Tartakoff, L.Y. From Dictatorship to Democracy: Four Chilean Women’s Memories. Soc 45, 363–367 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-008-9109-1

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