The internal security policies in Chile (1973-2000). Continuities and readings in historical perspective

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the internal security policies in Chile from 1973 to 2000. In that sense, the National Security Doctrine implemented during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, and the public security policies and citizen security of the presidential terms of Patricio Aylwin and Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle. The internal security policies took place in a historical context in which various actors intervened, such as the police and the Chilean Army, which interacted dialectically with the governments and played a central role according to their institutional logic, actions that were influenced and accentuated by the ideology and repressive practices developed during the dictatorship against the so-called internal enemy. The legacy was transferred to the governments of the transition to democracy, where a new subject arises to repress who is the delinquent. Also, governments undertook the task of implementing projects to modernize institutions, progressive processes that occurred with friction between the sub jects involved. This research is qualitative, developed through discourse analysis, which contextualizes the historical situation of internal security policies, characterizes them, analyzes the role of the subjects involved and establishes similarities and differences among policies.