%0 Journal Article %T £¿ESTAMOS EN GUERRA, SE£¿ORES!: EL R¨¦GIMEN MILITAR DE PINOCHET Y EL "PUEBLO", 1973-1980 %A Valdivia Ortiz de Z¨¢rate %A Ver¨®nica £¿ %J Historia (Santiago) %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0717-71942010000100005 %X this article analyzes the relationship between the military regime of general augusto pinochet and chile£¿s popular sectors during the 1970£¿s, questioning the common view that posits an exclusionary understanding between that government and the high bourgeoisie. the thesis sustains that pinochet£¿s dictatorship set out to co-opt the popular milieu, historically associated with center and left-wing politics, and that, therefore, its relationship with the £¿people£¿ was not based solely on repression. the reason for this is that the £¿war£¿ waged against marxism had an ideological foundation, and thus required the re-socialization of those social actors. the international context and the economic crisis, likewise, reinforced people£¿s political centrality as a legitimizing agent. from a conceptual standpoint, this article seeks to reconsider the model of the £¿bureaucratic-authoritarian state£¿ applied to the military dictatorships of latin america£¿s southern cone, including the chilean case. %K dictatorship %K counter-insurgency %K war %K people. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0717-71942010000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en