Abstract
The Chilean Government of President Pinochet has used exile as one of its instruments of social and political control. A fiercely authoritarian Government, it employs a variety of methods to try to ensure the necessary social tranquility to pursue its goal of creating a free market economy and a 'liberal' state. Thirteen years after the coup of 1973, there is neither social peace in Chile nor a free market economy, let alone a liberal state by any definition. Political protest, beginning in May 1983, has periodically shaken the country, reaching a climax in the massive demonstration of rejection of the government and its policies on 2-3 July 1986.1 The government's main answer to this protest is repression. Exile is one form of repression, and it continues to cause acute human suffering for thousands of Chileans. Exile is no political novelty in Chilean history. It has been used by governments following periods of political conflict in 1851, 1859, 1891 and 1927-31. But the sharp contrast with the present is that in previous cases amnesty followed quickly.
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