Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This essay analyzes the role of the Chilean Army in the debate for development and the Alliance for Progress in the country between 1961 and 1970. The Army followed the idea of development through articles in its magazines, and contributed with it through of special courses for conscript soldiers, as well as in construction tasks carried out by engineering units and the Military Labor Corps. In short, the Army was part of the development plans promoted by the State as an instrument of technical, operational and low-cost work.
Source: Historia Caribe
Author: Froilán Ramos
Institution: Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3014587714