The Crisis of the Economy and the Crisis of the Dictatorship

In this and the next chapters we will seek to explain the economic and political causes and precipitants of the 1979 revolution. These causes were: the generation of economic discontent on a mass scale; the emergence of some conflict of interest between the state and the upper class; the revolutionary mobilisation of the masses; the occurrence of a political alliance between diverse forces of opposition; and the wavering of the regime's foreign support.