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CHRONOLOGY - 1979
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JANUARY 2, 1979
A new labor plan is enacted. The
new program - designed by recently appointed Labor Minister José Piñera -
reflects the neo-liberal economic model being applied in Chile, restricts
negotiating rights and allows for lower salaries.
MAY 1, 1979
Three hundred and sixty-five people are
arrested in unauthorized Labor Day marches.
JUNE 20, 1979
Hoy magazine is suspended for two
months because, according to Gen. Enrique Morel, two interviews
published in the magazine, with leftists leaders Clodomiro Almeyda and
Carlos Altamirano, made a mockery of the regime's decision to ban
political parties.
AUGUST 1979
The National Union Coordinator (CNS),
alongside other trade unions, creates the Command for the Defense of Union
Rights, which sets out to devise a program to counteract the negative
effects of the new Labor Plan.
OCTOBER 1979
The Supreme Court rejects the United
States' petition to extradite Army officials Manuel Contreras, Pedro
Espinoza and Fernández Larios. Up to this point, many opposition sectors
believed the Letelier-Moffit case would seriously damage the regime's
international credibility, but the regime manages the conflict
successfully.
OCTOBER 2, 1979
The remains of 19 human bodies are
discovered in the Yumbel cemetery. In the inquest that follows, it is
established that they belong to the 19 missing people from Laja and San
Rosendo, who had been arrested September 18, 1973 by Carabineros.
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