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In 1948, on the initiative of Chilean President Gabriel González Videla, the Chilean National Congress enacted the Permanent Defense of Democracy Law ( es, Ley de Defensa Permanente de la Democracia, Ley N° 8.987), referred to by many as the Damned Law (''Ley Maldita''), which outlawed the Communist Party of Chile and banned 26,650 persons from the electoral lists.
The law banned the expression of ideas which appeared to advocate "the implantation in the republic of a regime opposed to democracy or which attack the sovereignty of the country."
The detention center in Pisagua, used during Carlos Ibáñez del Campo's dictatorship in the late 1920s (and which would be used again during Pinochet's dictatorship), was re-opened to imprison communists, anarchists and revolutionaries, although on this occasion no detainees were executed. Prominent communists such as the senator
Memoria Chilena
Anti-communism in Chile Political repression in Chile Legal history of Chile McCarthyism Political and cultural purges Political scandals in Chile Politics of Chile 1948 in Chilean law
In 1948, on the initiative of Chilean President Gabriel González Videla, the Chilean National Congress enacted the Permanent Defense of Democracy Law ( es, Ley de Defensa Permanente de la Democracia, Ley N° 8.987), referred to by many as the Damned Law (''Ley Maldita''), which outlawed the Communist Party of Chile and banned 26,650 persons from the electoral lists.
The law banned the expression of ideas which appeared to advocate "the implantation in the republic of a regime opposed to democracy or which attack the sovereignty of the country."
The detention center in Pisagua, used during Carlos Ibáñez del Campo's dictatorship in the late 1920s (and which would be used again during Pinochet's dictatorship), was re-opened to imprison communists, anarchists and revolutionaries, although on this occasion no detainees were executed. Prominent communists such as the senator Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...
fled into exile
Exile is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose. Usually persons and peoples suf ...
. González Videla also broke relations with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact states. A pro-communist miners' strike in Lota Lota may refer to:
Places
*Lota (crater), a crater on Mars
*Lota, Chile, a city and commune in Chile
*Lota, Punjab, village in Pakistan
*Lota, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia
**Lota railway station, a station on the Cleveland line
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was brutally suppressed. Demonstrations against the legislation led to the declaration of martial law and were successfully repressed.
The law was replaced by Law n.º 12.927, about State Security Law (Seguridad del Estado), on 6. August 1958 which ended the proscription of the Communist Party and lowered penalties for crimes against state security and public order to levels comparable with those that existed prior to 1948.
See also
* Communist Party of Chile *McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making false or unfounded accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to anarchism, communism and socialism, and especially when done in a public and attention-grabbing manner.
The term origin ...
* ''Neruda Neruda may refer to:
People
* Neruda (surname), a list of people with the surname
** Jan Neruda (1834—1891), Czech journalist, writer, and poet
** Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (—), classical Czech composer
** Pablo Neruda (1904—1973), Chilean ...
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Memoria Chilena
Anti-communism in Chile Political repression in Chile Legal history of Chile McCarthyism Political and cultural purges Political scandals in Chile Politics of Chile 1948 in Chilean law