Long Chile

Puro, Chile, es tu cielo azulado! ("How pure, Chile, is your blue sky!")
- Official Motto of Chile
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The military dictatorship of Chile, colloquially known as Long Chile, was an authoritarian military regime that ruled Chile for seventeen years, between September 11, 1973 and March 11, 1990. The dictatorship was established after the democratically-elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973. During this time, the country was a corporatist state ruled by a military junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet. 
This regime was notable due to its elongated size, extending vertically throughout the entirety of the western coast of the North and South America, from the northern tip in Alaska to its South America's southernmost point at Tierra del Fuego. Occupying an area approximately the size of India and partially or entirely containing 14 nations, Pinochet considered the Pacific Ocean to be his "Mare Nostrum".
The elongated size of Chile during this time can be attributed to the expansionist policies of the Chilean government under Augusto Pinochet at the time. In sharp contrast to Allende's leftist policies, Pinochet was advised by a team of free-market economists educated in US universities known as the Chicago Boys under the libertarian ideals of Milton Friedman. Through economic deals, by 1983, the Chilean government had literally "bought-out" a strip of land, averaging 110 miles wide, from the northern border of Chile extending all the way up to the northern point of Alaska.
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