The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile » (1st Edition)

The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile sheds new light on a little-examined period during the Chilean dictatorship. Between 1977 and 1978, the governing junta in Chile quietly replaced the secret police organization known as the Direccion de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) with the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI). Policzer provides the first systematic account of why the DINA was created in the first place, how it became the most powerful repressive institution in the country, and why it was suddenly replaced with a different organization, one that operated in a markedly more restrained manner.

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1 The Dark Spaces of Politics 3

2 The Coercion Problem 16

3 The Overthrow and Turmoil 41

4 The Rise of the DINA (1973-74) 68

5 The DINA in Action (1974-77) 85

6 The Fall of the DINA (1977-78) 100

7 Options and Shifts 112

8 The Politics of Organizing Coercion 133

Appendix A Monitoring Indicators, September-December 1973 150

Appendix B Monitoring Indicators, 1974-78 160

Appendix C Monitoring Indicators after 1978 169

Appendix D Cross-Country Comparisons on Monitoring Indicators 176

Notes 184

Bibliography 217

Index 233