ABSTRACT
After the devastating effects of the World Depression of the 1930s, Chile was the first Latin-American country to follow the French-inspired, Political Popular Front, centre-left, coalition governments (including the strong local Communist Party) and to adopt the Import Substitution Economic Model. When this development strategy showed its weaknesses in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the country initially embarked on a “non-Marxist” and Alliance for Progress 1 inspired social reform programme, termed “Revolution with Liberty”.
