Ley Maldita

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As Ley Maldita (Spanish; Damn Law ), the 1948 Chile enacted ban on the Communist Party of Chile by the president Gabriel González Videla called. Officially, it was called Ley de Defensa Permanente de la Democracia .

Under the government of Videla, the communists participate in the government for the first time (which they had previously refused for ideological reasons). The communist agriculture minister in particular leads to serious conflicts in the governing coalition, which is also supported by the liberals, who are deeply rooted in rural landowners. In Europe, the Cold War begins at the same time as the Berlin crisis . At the end of 1947 Gonzalez dismissed the communist ministers and in January 1948 the so-called "ley de defensa permanente de la democrácia", better known as "Ley Maldita" ("damned law"), was passed. This not only forbids the communist party, removes all communists from elected mandates and public offices, but also removes all communist voters from the electoral register: a total of more than 25,000 voters, about 4% of the electorate . In Pisagua of I. Region of Chile a is a concentration camp set up for political prisoners. This concentration camp is temporarily headed by the then officer Augusto Pinochet , who rebuilt it 25 years later after his coup. As expected, almost all MPs and senators from the right-wing parties (liberals and conservatives) and radicals approved the law, as did around half of the socialists. On the other hand, it is rejected by the other half of the PS (including the young Allende ) and the Falange Nacional . As a result of the Ley Maldita , poet Pablo Neruda also had to go into exile . The Partido Comunista will remain banned in Chile for ten years.