Abstract
Abstract Chile returned to democratic government in March 1990 when President Patricio Aylwin was elected after seventeen years of military rule. The process of transition was designed by the military, which allowed elections in exchange for agreement by the political parties to respect the constitutional structure put in place by the military. Despite the election of a civilian president, the ex-head of government, General Augusto Pinochet, remained head of the Army, and the military structure remained intact. These were the circumstances in which the new president was faced with the problem of human rights violations—summary executions, forced disappearances, widespread torture, and clandestine detention—committed during the military regime. The coherence of the Aylwin government’s policy in dealing with this problem is the subject of this chapter.
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