Gabriel González Videla

See also: González, Videla

Gabriel González Videla ((November 22nd 1898 - August 22nd 1980) is a Chilean Politician. He was president of the Chile between 1946 and 1952.

The presidential election of 1946 was gained by Gabriel González Videla, chief of the Radical party, supported by a coalition made up of radicals and Communists. González Videla named, for the first time in the history of the country, three Communists in his cabinet, but the coalition did not last six months. Often in dissension with the other members of the government, the Communists left the capacity in April 1947. A few months later, Chile broke its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

The situation hardens and, in 1948, of the hundreds of Communists were stopped under the terms of the law for the Defense of the democracy which prohibited the Communist party. A military revolt carried out by former president Ibáñez was repressed and the period which followed was disturbed by an important social agitation. In 1951, almost all the sectors of the economy were touched by the strikes. The following year, the people expressed his hostility with the traditional parties by electing the general Carlos Ibáñez, supported by the Party agrarian-member of the Labor Party.

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