METROPOLITAN TECHNOLOGICAL  UNIVERSITY   (UTEM )                                                          State of Chile

 

To :          Jeff   Dumas   Professor  of  Political Economy

                and  Economics

                The  University   of  Texas  at  Dallas    USA

 

Concerning to : NEW YORK ECAAR MEETING 1999  

                   ECONOMISTS  ALLIED  FOR ARMS REDUCTION

 

 

ECAAR  SESSION : Monday ,January 4 ,1998  8.00 p.m.

New York Hilton and Towers Hotel/RM 513

 

CONFERENCE

 

  The  Economic and Social Implications of the Armed Forces in Chile “

 

by Dr. Eng. Aedil Suárez Ph.D.

Academic. Director of Industrial Department.

Faculty of Engineering  (UTEM-CHILE)

Affiliate Chair - ECAAR  Chile

 

Angela  Suárez .  Coworker   Executive Secretary  of  ECAAR - CHILE                                                            

 

ABSTRACT

 

 

          The conference attemp to be an introduction to the social  and economic analysis of the costs and benefits  to reduce  the military expenditures in the developing countries like the State of Chile but according to the obligatory reengineering process into the armed forces wich  is producing a new relationship between soldiers and civil society  in  the 3th. milenium.

 

 

 

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 

        First of all ,  I  would like to thank this opportunity in order to explain my paper and secondly excuseme  for presents an  approach  from  the     viewpoint  of   my own  experience  in our   technological university rising  from the deep military seeds.

 

 

CONTENTS

 

1. The historical role of  army in Chile  and  Latin  America  :

        A  way  of love and hate, from O‘higgins to Pinochet.

 

2. Mission and vision of the armed forces  at the end of  the military   “ Coup d` Etat” age

       and at the begining of the    human rigth age.

 

3. Rethinking the armed forces in the developing countries :

       Selling out  our military installations ?

 

4. The New National Segurity for a new world  order and the new enemies:

       Terrorism, narcotrafic and poverty.

 

5. The Decalogue of Corversion for armed forces in the developing nations.

 

6. Social Economic System and decision-making in military oriented firms in Chile :

       What about the Cardoen affair?

 

7. The effect of the military dictatorship model in the national universities  :

 

8. The case of  IPS*  the seed of  UTEM created by    the   General Pinochet dictatorship

 

 

 

*IPS: Instituto Profesional de Santiago 1982-1994 created from the big ban

  of  the Universidad de Chile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.  The historical role of the armed forces in  Chile  and Latin America

A way of love and hate, from O higgins to Pinochet

 

            The armed forces of Chile at the same time of the other countries of latinamerica, were born during the years of the Independence figthing against to the spanish empire .

The  emancipator movement  initiate in September of 1810, in the wake of complex internal and external factors, acquired characteristic violentes in the dissolution of the dependency of the Spanish colonial empire. ( of course  Brazil cut dependency of Portugal , but withouth acts of violence or military actions ).

 

 

            There was that confront the military efforts displayed by the virrey of the Peru in order to suffocate the insurrection and to bend the resistance opposed in the interior by who were rejecting the freedom purposes  of the patriots and were wishing fervently to maintain to Chile as dependency within Hispanic colonial regime.

 

            Between the years 1810 and 1811 were elaborated defense projects and military organization of the country. It was created the War Ministry whose magnitude between 1817 and 1823 was absolutely situational. It was not existing the professional soldier of the weapons, but the politician that was acting militarily.

 

            Bernardo O'HIGGINS the liberator of Chile,  was  at the begining the nonlegal sun of Ambrosio O´higgins an Irish citizen working to the spanish empire as Virrey of Peru ,who destinate his sun  to The London School where this young man obtain a social and political formation and a solid relationships with the masonic english-american movement for the liberation of latinoamerica. With this background and as  a legal sun of  Ambrosio O´higgins and the chilean women citizen Isabel Riquelme he   committed with the cause of the independence and  transforming  himself in active agitator in favor of the emancipator insurrection , formed in 1810 a  militias regiment as a seed of the chilean modern army..

 

            The country  was in militarization quickly to such point that arrived the moment in which the quantity of chiefs, official, and troops, was very high in relationship to the population and to the economic capacity of the country. In addition to the active and permanent influence in political matters.

 

            During this period the armed forces were maintained devoid of a solid professional sense, jerarquization, command, discipline being exposed to political leader actions, civil and uniformed.

 

            In 1830 was inaugurated the aristocratic Republic with conservative leaders as Diego Portales. Were  they  rejecting  with energy the purpose of erecting to the armed forces in a super commissioned political power with the address of the republic.

 

            Diego Portales built a rigid system, strong, traditionalist, duteous.

Forbiding to the soldiers be interfered in activities detached from its profession and be bound to political parties.

 

            Between the Republic and the war of the Pacific there were economic transformations, political, cultural, social and the entry of an influential capitalistic model.

 

            The armed forces were ideologicaly guided in benefit of the capitalistic regime. Were projecting a character generically conservative that was identifying them with the economic structure, social and political of the burgess society that was prevailing. Therefore their mission was to protect the stability and integrity of the regime.

 

 

            From 1840 the government was concerned about the efficient training of the uniformed professionals being duteous institutions, lacking of own will, respect of the President of the Republic.

 

            The conservative parties were the most regressive sectors of the country, would see in the soldiers a useful element for the accomplishment of their/its objective. They were  adversary of the milder democratic advance.

 

            After the war of the Pacific (1879) the relationships to Peru and Bolivia continued tense. 

 

            Was existing a live resentment toward Chile by lost territorial. Until the day of today Bolivia requests a territorial band that permit them an exit sea.

 

            Between Chile and Argentina also they had border problems. It were lived in a permanent state of war danger.

 

            It was arrived to the conclusion of reforming and modernizing to the armed forces particularly to the army.

 

            They were created new military schools, of cavalry, infantry, artillery, naval etc.

 

            In the armed forces was born an overdone notion of their insensibility and born a national pride nationalism. The armed forces had to be it more appreciated by the people of Chile.

 

            Between 1890 and 1940s the fiscal budgets destined between 20% and 30% of their/its total for the national defense. Without be solved serious problems in social and economic matter.

                       

            Chile was the strongest maritime power of Latin America to be a so small country (740.000 square km ).

 

            The armed forces to a large extent were put at the disposal of capitalistic foreign and of diplomatic agents of government to suffocate reivindicator movements  before the Chilean government.

 

            The army continued being modernized since were said that having appropriate armed forces elements would be possible to maintain the " social peace" that would be seen threatened by the fighting  action displayed by the worker movement.

 

            Practically the generality of the  slaughter between 1901 and 1970s (not less than 15.000 dead thousand) were premeditated by the military  institutions..

 

            From 1940s the proletariat as a rule was acquiring social force in the country headed by the communist and socialistic parties.

 

            After the World War II the capitalism exercised a dominance stressed in the national and political economy and penetrated in the armed forces in injurious and deep form.

 

            In 1952 was subscribed the Chilean Military Agreement -American of mutual safety. United States would help Chile in the national safety with the warlike material delivery according to the law of Loans and Rentals of 1942 and its  time Chile was guaranteeing to himself the exclusive sale of matters outweigh of strategic value (copper, iron, nitrate or “salitre”, etc.)

 

            Popular movements in Chile, Latin America, the Cuban revolution disquieted enormously to United States who would see a threat to their domination on the continent.

 

            Thus it appeared a new concept within the armed forces called " internal enemy" that they were the popular forces.

 

2. Mission and vision of the armed forces at the end of the military “Coup d´Etat” age       and at the begining of the human right age

 

            Between the years 1973 - 1976 - 1977 was characterized by the almost exclusive predominance of the restrictive aspect without definition of a clear project of social reorganization and political that it would not be of the economic model, destruction of the social organizations and the personalization of the military  power.

 

 

            Starts the transformation to a capitalistic society with an authoritative model consecrated in the constitution of 1981 followed by the isolation by Pinochet, incoherences by the policies of the government without projects that to offer to the society except the administration of their failure, a crumbling of the economic model implanted by the equipment of Chicago, crisis of the external debt, collapse of the financial system, generalization of the unemployment and poverty.

 

 

            In 1983 the impact of the financial crisis affected to middle class sectors ( mutual funds) and there was a  tenuous direction in against of the government.

 

            This union affected middle class and popular sector opposers constitutes the base of the first national protests.

 

            Emerge other pent-up sector that it is the " young people" in the marginal neighborhoods. It is not something ideological but visceral of the humiliated and frustrated by a military regime that  denied all possibility of expression and of accomplishment in their life.

 

 

3. Rethinking the armed forces in the developing countries:

Selling out our military installations ?

 

 

 

 

 

            In October recently past was stopped in London , Augusto  Pinochet by genocide charges, terrorism and violation to the human rights so much to Chilean citizens as foreign.

 

            In Chile during nine transition years Pinochet could not be court on account of an amnesty that was granted.

 

            During this transition have been permanent fret between some parties of the conciliation ( PS - PPD) and the armed forces where the government has been mediating of this conflict.

 

 

            Before this amnesty the Chilean courts remain incapacitate to judge to Pinochet of the contrary would be court annulling the amnesty, but the right parties are opposed to this and including a Christian Democracy sector ( party of the President of the Republic and of the conciliation)

 

 

4.   The New National Security for a new world order and the new enemies:

      Terrorism, narcotrafic and poverty

 

 

            In United States as in Latin America the drug traffic is one of the principals threatens to the national safety.

 

            The drug traffic is not an external and isolated phenomenon to the socioeconomic realities where operates. Grow and is developed in the region together with economic problems, political, social, as are the misery,  social marginalism, economic stagnation, the political instability and the domination rates.

 

            Latin America in the present decade is without doubt affected by the drug traffic.

 

            The threat of the safety not only stems from the operation of the joint of transnational illegal activities that move the business of the drug traffic but also of the own strategies that they have been designed to combat and control the phenomenon.

 

            The inclosed of the national armies in the tasks of erradicación of raw material cultivation  of  narcodrugs is a policy that creates the risk of exposing to the armed forces to the corruption and to unbalance the relationships civilian-military , before the expansion of the  military responsibilities in many other things concerning to  the human rights.

 

 

 

 

            United States constitutes the center of the world drugs consumption. The countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Belize, Peru, Bolivia are the suppliers. Colombia controls 75% of all the refined cocaine sent to the United States.

 

            The high earnings level that throws the business of the cocaine, it has carried to the real transnational companies development of the crime with a level of unprecedented organization. The phenomenon has been extended and beginning to affect to the countries in which the drugs were a marginal phenomenon ( Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela and the Caribbean ).

 

            In the case of Mexico the expansion of the cocaine has meant a greater association between national drug-trafficker nets and the  international mafias ,  making increasingly complicated the control on the part of Mexican state.

 

            The American government from by mid the decade has defined the problem of the illicit drugs traffic as a vital topic of national safety and as the public preoccupation more important for the society. This interest has brought with himself a multiplication of the tensions between United States and Latin America..

 

            From the optics of the United States the phenomenon of the drugs as matter of national safety is narrowly linked to international terrorism, the social instability potential, weapons traffic, control of front frontiers to migrant flow etc.

 

            The narcotrafico in Chile has not reached the levels of substances traffic toxic as in the Latin America rest.

 

            A task that they have come performing the armed forces in their/its three branches; naval, areas and land  as the civil and uniformed policeman is the permanent and strict alertness of the border and border  zones with Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and coastal zone, by be these countries producing of coca  and to serve at the same time as corridor in the drug trafficking toward other countries mainly as Europe and United States.

 

            Nevertheless, Chile has increased enormously the drugs consumption mainly in the juvenile population and without discrimination of classes or social strata, where the difference makes it exclusively the quality and the price of the drugs.

 

            During the military regime was punished severely the drug-traffickers and the drugs consumers.

 

            Currently the drugs and alcohol consumption in the Chilean population is a topic of specialists  preoccupation.

 

 

 

4.1 Poverty in Chile

 

 

            The income distribution in the years 1976 and 1983 is worse that the one which was existing in the year 1970s. The national wealth is more concentrated in the groups of high income.

 

            Concerning the unemployment increased four times more, the social expenses were of huge differences between Santiago and provinces.

 

            In 1987 the social expense in national safety is 40%.

 

            In the year 1998 the income distribution for the high sectors that understand 10% of the population of the country was of a 46% of all the national earnings. Being Chile the fifth greater injustice country in the distribution of the national wealth.

 

5. The  Decalogue of Corversion for armed forces in the developing nations.

 

     1. Reengineering process of the armed forces  in order to refound his historical role

     2. New  vision  and mission , where the coup d etat age, is far beyond the scope of

         this decalogue.

     3. The military function is  rule by  constitutional law.

     4. The new enemies : terrorism,narcotrafic,poverty ( not poors ) ,and others, but

                                        never people.

     5. The new allieds :  the patriots ( civilians  and soldiers ) ,

                                      the neighbor countries and their people,

                                      the global  technologies in the new order of 

                                      the world security system .       

     6. The military career  like an  educational development including university .

     7. The soldiers  is a   profesional of armed forces .

      8.The civilian-military relationships as a whole ,including high performance .

      9.The military budget is not a cost , just in time is an investment  in  life quality.

    10. To have an armed forces utopia :   The war is over , the peace is at the begining.

   

 

 

6.  Social Economist System and decision-making in military oriented firms in Chile:

What about the Cardoen affair?

 

 

            Cardoen was harbinger in Chile of the private armaments industry.

 

            The end of the war between Iraq ( the larger weapons buyer ) and Iran had an impact in industries  of  Cardoen. Sold weapons to Saudi Arabia that were supposed was going to use against their, before declared client and friend of Saddam Hussein. In addition to producing complete industrial plants that before the Gulf War sold to Iraq and that installed also in the  ancient Soviet Union.

 

            Cardoen it has denied emphatically have sold weapons to Iran but in 1990 the French Bernard intermediary Stroiazzo between the FAMAE-FERRIMAR and Iran found with which in 1985 Cardoen had an almost closed contract with the iraníes.

 

            The project LPA-2 of Industries Cardoen whose purpose was to recruit and to move to Iraq technical and Chilean workers for the installation and operation a plant of armed of cluster pumps for the Iraqi aviation was secret until  25 of January of 1987.

 

            Demand of Iraq by the pumps of Cardoen was such, that is toward indispensable to count in the same Iraq on a plant of armed, training engineers and Iraqi technical personnel.

 

            Most of the Chileans were ignoring that finally had been decided to install in Iraq a group of engineers, technical and Chilean workers in a plant that produced thirty daily pumps. And that all that was the secret Project LPA-2.The plant was going to be located to 80 km. of Bagdad. 

 

            When the press was deposited of the Project definitely let of be secret inclusive the iraníes were deposited of the projects of Cardoen. 

 

            Seven engineers were held. Hussein pressed so as not to let to leave to the group by that the technical personnel had a high degree of knowledge of defense appliances that Cardoen sold to Bagdad and their its  presence was necessary over there.

 

            Other publications have informed that Cardoen invested 40 million of dollars in 1988 in mounting the factory metalmecánica in the outsides of Bagdad that would produce about 500 thousand monthly shotguns.

 

 

            Cardoen  possesses the bank of the Pacific, companies mining field, air service, hotels, agricultural trade, editorial.The boldest specialists were calculating their/its/your/his fortune in some 300 or ' 400 million of dollars. Of they, it would handle some 250 million in Chile.

According to figures of the own company ( Chilean military industry 101), Industry sales Cardoen would be the following:

 

 

                                   Industry sales Cardoen

                                      ( in million of dollars)

 

1978

79

1980

81

83

84

85

86

87

88

1989

TOTAL

3

5

7

8

35

42

89

32

80

-

3,5

319,5

 

 

 

The British magazine Army News, delivered considerably greater figures.

 

1984

1985

1986

1987

TOTAL

60

108

47

24

239

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Structure of the Group Cardoen and their corresponding percentages.

 

1) Society of Metallurgical Air Transportation Cardoen 99%

2) Metalnor (ex Industries Cardoen ) Cardoen 90%

3) Explosive Cardoen Ltda. Cardoen 99%

4) Mining Company  Cardoen S.A. In society with Investments Miami Lakes Ltda 1%

5) Industrial Supplies Society Petromin Ltda. Cardoen 45,5%

6) Investments Cardoen and Explosive Cardoen

7) Exploquim Ltda. Cardoen 50%

8) T&F S.To Cardoen 19,6%

 

 

 

Approximation to the fortune of Cardoen

 

( according to principal activities)

 

 Capital declared                                             USD  51.000.000.-

    ( 24 societies )

 

 

 

 

 

            The Amendment Kennedy was forbiding the sale of weapons to the regime of Pinochet while there is violations to the human rights.

 

            In 1978 the Chilean government was sanctioned by United States with embargo in the sale of weapons to root of the crime to Border Letelier. Cardoen it was converted in the weapons supplier for the army in that same date ..

 

            When Chile was isolated by the countries developed according to says Cardoen the purchase of weapons was made difficult due to closes of the sources of normal supply.

 

            Cardoen near other three private companies devoted to produce industrial explosives were called by the government in 1978 to see the possibility of reorienting our production toward the defense given the agitation of the era by the delicate relationships to Argentina.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 . The effect of the miltary   dictatorship model   in the national universities.

 

 

            The same 11 of September of 1973, the universities are occupied by the soldiers and  a great number of teachers and pupils are incarcerated , dead or disappeared, are ignited the libraries of the university of Chile and is forbidden the pupils concentration.

 

            In October of the same year, is dictated the Decree Law N° 50 that empowers to the Military Board of Government, to designate governing delegates in all the universities, occupying these charges, active  officers of the armed forces in their great majority.                                                                                      

            All the power is concentrated in the rector, disappearing the participation from the university community in the conduct from the university.

 

            The rectors begin  " to purify"  the university. 25% of the teachers are bidden farewell and to but of 20.000 pupils are  canceled the enrollments. Appear the " black lists " of academics and students.

 

 

            They are closed socioeconomic study centers, Slavic languages department, department medical specialty, social sciences, agrarian studies centers, arts and trade departments, journalism schools, sociology, theatre, technological investigation departments etc.

 

            The neutralization of the student organizations were controlled by the creation of organizations  of safety service dependent of the executive.

 

            The universities should be in summarized counts to the service of the end of the military government and be converted into a vehicle of ideologies transmission of certain dominant groups.

 

            Within framework of the profesionalización was imparted careers that served solely for the production and work in private companies. The investigations are  practical - commercial. So much the economy, the society and the education were defending a neoliberal extreme framework.

 

            The universities are converted into a mere bureaucratic form to avoid it is decided to reduce the size of the universities and with this was reduced notably the number of vacancies (1973 - 47.214 vacant, 1974 - 42.555 vacant, 1983 - 32.000 vacant).

 

 

 

 

 

            Before the military intervention the Chilean universities were practically free and was financed with contribution of the state. From 1973 the fiscal contribution reduced. The collection to the students increased near a difficult economic situation and the unequal distribution of the income provoked a socioeconomic selectivity of the pupils.

 

            The rights of the society to the education and to the knowledge are seen severely limited by the “elitización” social and economic of access to the universities and by the deterioration of the investigations and disappearance of some of they .

 

            According to the William Thayer book “ Democracy  and Universities” says that "The universities have as own sign the universality of the to know and that singly dangerous is the situation that were lived in Chile all over the transformation process that agitates to  the  universities. These should be a reflection institution in the middle of the superficialness and immaturity of the solutions that emerge of the political and social struggles. It must be a tireless defending of the humanismo and permanent enemiga of all hardship, terror and violence".

 

            Currently the universities have recovered part of the university autonomy remaining viciousness of the dictatorship that tarnished their/its/your/his enough educational service tradition in the professionals training, being reflected in a  powers concentration in hands of the rectors and  the distancing of the scientific and academic aspect and an emphasis in the entrepreneurial area.

 

            This unavoidable military influence that lasted seventeen years been reflected in the behavior and in the professional training of the youths that were formed during this time, what is reflected  in the occupational performance creating a competitive system, “consumista”, individualistic which is going to a high degree of stress in the population.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. The case of the Professional Institute of Santiago (IPS) genesis of the Metropolitan    Technological University (UTEM) created by the General  Pinochet Dictatorship.

 

            During the military dictatorship the IPS that was depending of the Universidad de Chile was separated of this studies house being created an autonomous institute, thereinafter the IPS became university and became the third state university of the country.

 

            The first governing of the institute was as in all the university member of the armed forces. The structure organizacional was rigid and with absolute authority concentration in the rector.

 

            To five years of formed the university yet continue countless vices of power and at this time the rector  attempted  his reelection for third time though the law permits to him a maximum of two periodos.

 

          Today the UTEM is found in its worse crisis of gobernabilidad  with a teachers and pupils unit by a democratic change that never before is known.

 

            The 8 transition years  to the democracy in Chile go through huge credibility difficulties though there are notorious advances , but curiously in  the universities of the state and the UTEM in particular  are maintained the same procedures , antidemocratics ,stalinistcs , and dictatures rules,  for example before of the military coup of the 11 of 1970s September  the teachers, pupils and not academic were voting in their elections of way rector weighted, academic 75% , pupils 15% and not academic 10% , currently alone vote some teachers and the rectors is reeligen with the own teachers that they contract or in the case of the UTEM are capable of deciding until vote is void and when a void vote  belongs or rather the defraudation legalized in your worse expresíón with the teachers support that are lent  to that known  truth of the facismo  that emanates  from the power  and not of the knowledge.  In this regard the pupils of the UTEM have declared that  teacher that lies can not give classes  speaking about  to the teachers that are lent to this type of maneuvers many times by economic motivations. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

 

            All the dictatorships failed in terms of solving the basic problems of the society, failed in national projects and gave a strong impact in the development future of the societies that suffered them.

 

            The emergence of the dictatorships born to certain activation and mobilization processes of the change forces ( popular bulks ) that acquire degrees of state or social power accompanied of a strong degree of radicalización ideological.

 

            The prevailing ideology in the dictatorial regime is that of " national safety " and the legitimacy principle is that of the victory in a war to save the nation of the "chaos and the anarchy".

 

            The dictatorships are unable to solving important problems that affect to a nation such as economic stagnation, dependency of the foreign, unemployment, inequalitys, misery, breakup in the social relationships etc.

 

            Let a deep fingerprint in societies that were transformed and let of be what were. Putting to the universities of the state on the deepest of the crisis , including to the UTEM that they same created  in their beginnings as  the IPS .

 

            The society changed in two addresses on the one hand born an incomplete modernization (only advances of the industrialization) and additionally the reduction of the paper of the state and the elimination of all the public representation spaces.

 

            The withdrawal of the armed forces does not mean a substantial change in their vision of the society neither perception of the role inside to the society. They are armed forces that they have not been adhered to the democracy but forcing to this.

 

            This precariousness of the democratic adhesion not only it is of the sector to fight also encompasses important areas of the civil society, especially in the capitalistic class and of right. Their behavior with respect to the repression and elimination of freedoms during the military regime is a test of this as is also the absence or political parties weakness that represent them with independence of the military power.

 

            As far as democracy is concerned to  the armed forces and     their process of reegineering ( including soldiers mind changes ) will have to understand that their principal role is not the repression to persons or ideologies but to collaborate in the technological development of the country and be added to the efforts of a prompt reconciliation to face the challenges of the next century as a united nation.

 

                       

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

( original in spanish)

 

Armed Forces and Chilean Politics

Ramirez Necochea Hernán   1988

 

Armed Forces in the Life Nation

Pollini Roldán   1991

 

Armed Forces during the Goverment of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Beyond

Ruiz Esquide Figueroa  1989

 

Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. World Military Expediture and Arms Transfers 1993 - 1994. Washington D.C., 1995.

 

Armed Forces in the  civil society democracy

Buceta Oscar  1989

 

Armed Forces.... Not, Thanks !

Pesutic P., Sergio  1994

 

Armed Forces and Military Goberment

August Rods   1990

 

University  into democratic society

Thayer, William

 

Drug trafficking : To problem of National Segurity

South American Commission of Peace        1990

                       

 

ADDENDUM

( original data base in spanish and many other information  in ECAAR CHILE )

 

TOTAL FUERZAS ARMADAS:

 

ACTIVOS: 91.800 (31.000 conscriptos)

Periodo de servicio militar: Ejército de 12 a 14 meses; Armada y Fuerza Aérea hasta 2 ańos.

RESERVAS: 50.000 (Ejército)

EJERCITO: 54.000 (27.000 concriptos)

ARMADA: 25.000 (3.000 concriptos), incluídas fuerza aérea naval, guardacostas e infantería de Marina.

AVIACIÓN NAVAL: (500); 7 aviones de combate, 21 helicópteros blindados, 4 escuadrones.

INFANTERIA DE MARINA: (3.000)

FUERZA AREA: 12.800 (1.000 conscriptos)

FUERZA EN EL EXTRANJERO (DE PAZ DE LA ONU):

INDIA/PAKISTAN (GRUPO DE OBSERVADORES DE LA ONU-UNMOGIP): 3 observadores.

MEDIO ORIENTE (ORGANISMO DE LA ONU SUPERVISOR DEL CESE DEL FUEGO-UNTSO):

4  observadores.

CAMBOYA (AUTORIDAD TRANSNACIONAL DE LA ONU EN CAMBOYA-UNTAC): 52 observadores

 

FUENTE: The Military Balance 1993-1994, The International Institute for Strategic Studies, Brassey , London,1993.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                MILITARY STATISTICS CHILE

 

 

 

 

 

Years

GM

mil US$

PNB

mil US$

FF.AA.

miles

GM/PNB

     %

GM/GGC

       %

GM

per cápita

FF.AA. por

1.000 hab.

Import.Armas

mil US$

Export.Armas

mill US$

Import.Arms

Total Import.

         %

Export.Arms

Total Export.

       %

1983

911

21,540

126

4.2

12.7

78

10.8

114

0

2.6

0.0

1984

957

22,580

123

4.2

11.9

81

10.4

232

27

2.6

0.5

1985

915

22,800

124

4.0

11.4

76

10.3

26

105

0.7

2.1

1986

837

24,510

127

3.4

10.9

68

10.3

64

26

1.5

0.5

1987

1.091E

26,680

127

4.1

14.3

88

10.1

99

211

1.8

3.3

1988

1.04E

28,580

96

3.6

12.7

82

7.6

72

335

1.1

4.0

1989

964E

31,850

95

3.0

14.3

75

7.4

91

183

1.1

2.0

1990

1.090.E

33,240

95

3.3

15.4

83

7.2

77

11

0.9

0.1

1991

1.111E

35,330

90

3.1

14.0

83

6.8

74

0

0.9

0.0

1992

1.013

39,160

92

2.6

11.7

75

6.8

51

5

0.5

0.1

1993

1.002

42,140

92

2.4

9.2

73

6.7

40

0

0.4

0.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY, World Military Expeditures and Arms Transfers 1993-1994. Washington D.C., 1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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