Chile

**Chile**, officially the **Republic of Chile**, is a country in South America, bordered by Argentina to the east and Peru-Bolivia to the north.

## Politics

Chile is a one-party state, controlled by the National Populist VPNC (Popular Nationalist Vanguard of Chile), which seized power following the post-war coup d'état. The regime is heavily personalist, with all power being held by the caudillo Jorge González von Marées, referred to domestically as "el Jefe".

### Terrorism

Despite the absolute control held by the VPNC on the surface, however, it is extremely unpopular and seen exclusively as a puppet to the Argentine and Peruvian-Bolivian alliance, which has led to the rise of the FLN-AD (National Liberation Front - Democratic Alliance), an organized resistance against the Savinkovist regime, primarily making use of urban guerilla tactics, city bombings, and bank robberies to strike against the government.

The VPNC has combated the FLN-AD with state terrorist tactics of its own, making extensive usage of the Chilean Armed Forces and Carabineros, and funneling much of Argentina's financial aid into radical, far-right paramilitaries in the VPNC's name.

## Parties

### FLN-AD

The FLN-AD is a political organization that, on paper, presents itself as an anti-totalitarian big-tent united front. In practice, however, it has been dominated by two wings in particular: the **National Liberation Front**, primarily composed of far-left remnants of the former Syndicalist Republic, many of whom went underground following the war, as well as a growing youth wing disillusioned with the authoritarian regime, and a collection of former centrist bourgeoisie parties, all of whom form the **Democratic Alliance**.

#### National Liberation Front

* United Socialist Party (PSU)
	+ Popular Unitary Action Movement (MAPU)
	+ Patriotic Revolutionary Front (FRP)
* Permanent Revolutionary Party (PRP)
* Revolutionary Syndicalist Party (PSR)
* Radical Party (PR)

The FLN coalition is primarily led by one party, that being the United Socialist Party, a recent (and controversial) merger of the Syndicalist Party and the Socialist Alliance after the former's post-coup decline. Led by Salvador Allende, it has been criticized by many within the left for its moderate image. However, in the face of the authoritarian VPNC regime, the PSU's image is but a facade it shows to the public, only increasing its popularity among all classes while its more radical associates, allies, and paramilitaries perform the heavy work in its name. The main paramilitary associated with this is the Patriotic Revolutionary Front, or FRP, under the leadership of Carlos Prats, himself an Allende loyalist.

Despite his dominance, many have questioned Allende's middle-of-the-road leadership between mainstream syndicalism and democratic socialism. With the growth of the Democratic Alliance, some have called for Allende to step down in favor of either a more well-defined chairman. Though this proposal is still fringe, due Allende's reportedly high approval rating, many believe that he will be replaced if the opposition grows too fierce.

When the old Syndicalist Party merged to form the PSU, radicals within the old party were outraged, and those who voted against the merger split to either join the Permanent Revolutionary Party or the new Revolutionary Syndicalist Party. The former is a party that emerged from the merger of the former Communist Party in the 1930s with pro-British factions of the Syndicalist Party, formed partially from by Oswald Mosley's doctrine of Maximism, popular within Chile as a result of Britain's strong influence in the Chilean left, as well as a general distaste for the liberation theology of the PSR.

The latter, however, came mainly from those aligned with the Radical-Anarchist faction of the Syndicalists, the bulk of whom voted against merger and elected to form their own party in the form of the PSR, under Clotario Blest. Blest, a heavily influencial trade unionist during the Syndicalist Republic, had come to embrace the liberation theology practiced by the pro-syndicalist Liénartists of the Vatican City State, fusing it with his own brand of anarchism as a result of the Second Papal Schism. While anathema to many of the Radical-Anarchists within the party, most of whom having rallied on an anticlericalist model, it allowed the PSR to become one of the most powerful groups in the whole FLN-AD, allowing them to become a key influence to both the peasantry *and* the proletariat.

Other parties have been split by the tensions between the FLN and AD. Historically, the Radicals have been split into two factions: a left-wing camp and a right-wing camp, who have divided the party since its official ban. This, along with the defection of longtime party leader Gabriel González Videla towards the VPNC, has greatly damaged the party's appeal. The right-wing camp officially seceded from the party in 1955, forming the Movement for Democratic Unity and declaring its support for Jorge Alessandri, leaving the left-wing camp as the rump controller of the Radical Party. This camp, though supportive of the FLN leadership, has faced criticism and tensions from within the coalition due to its historical support for the end of the Syndicalist Republic. Another party is the Christian Democratic Party, a section of whom supportive of both Allende and the liberation theology of Blest had splintered off into the MAPU, or Popular Unitary Action Movement, which joined the PSU and bolstered parts of its youth movement.

#### Democratic Alliance

* Liberal Party (PL)
	+ Movement for Democratic Unity (MUD)
* National Falange (FN)

The Democratic Alliance has historically been a fringe association, comprised of mostly independent parties in an alliance of convenience alongside the FLN. However, it has begun to grow exponentially, both from the VPNC's alienation of the bourgeoisie and from Salvador Allende's controversial management of the FLN alienating some parts of the moderate opposition. In addition, its main figurehead, Jorge Alessandri of the Liberal Party and MUD, has received conspicuous amounts of Entente funding that have been directed towards the growth of his own party.

Despite Alessandri being the nominal figurehead, he and the Liberal Party have greatly alienated the historical head of the anti-FLN resistance, Eduardo Frei Montalva of the National Falange, whose party campaigns on a Christian democratic and social revolutionary platform that champions both economic progressivism and social conservatism. The tension between the two main heads of the AD have prevented its growth, primarily from anti-VPNC elements within Chile's own right-wing, who have instead opted to work within the system.

## Economy

Chile is the poorest country in Latin America for a variety of factors: the collapse of the saltpeter industry it had once relied upon, the declaration of bankruptcy in 1931, the devastation brought by the Great Southern War, the subsequent loss of its resource-rich regions in the north, and the complete collapse of the Chilean economy which left it bound to Argentine industry. Social inequality plagues all facets of Chilean society, a result of Argentine-sponsored corporatism and of

### Land ownership

Worsening the problem is the issue of Chilean land ownership, which is dominated by the Criollo-owned Haciendas, a backwards, nearly-feudalistic system that has broken the backs of laborers for centuries by tying them to the land which they till.

Land reform was initially attempted under Syndicalist rule in the 1930s, however, it never reached a state of completion before the national populist coup, which reversed any and all progress that had been made on reforming Chilean agriculture. This has only martyred the image of Chilean syndicalism even further, as the once-mixed image of the party-state has become a period of nostalgia for peasants and the working class, much like what neopatagonismo has become in Argentina.