When the military ousted President Salvador Allende in 1973 and created a junta, the Christian Democrats in Chile faced a stark choice. Those who went into exile opposed the junta and, with two exceptions, Jaime Castillo and Andrés Zaldívar, were on the left of the party as opposed to the more conservative wing led by Eduardo Frei Montalva and Patricio Aylwin. Following two splits (1969 and 1971) among the Christian Democrats, the differences between the left and right wings within the Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC) had deepened. The left of the PDC – a loose group rather than an organised...
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