voters refused General Pinochet the additional term he sought by a margin of 55 percent to 43 percent. Ten of the nation’s twelve regions voted no, leaving the erstwhile potentate “humiliated.” As the new constitution stipulated, Pinochet held on to power for another year, until, in July 1989, after tireless work from activists, Chileans elected a president and a congress for the first time in nearly twenty years.40
