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During the [[Salvador Allende]] regime, Patricio Aylwin was a prominent opositor<ref>[https://youtu.be/nCyPa2avnGA?t=41 Protesta contra el Comunismo - Chile 1972]</ref> being an anticommunist critic and having made an alliance with the right-wing called Democratic Confederation (Confederación Democrática, CODE).<ref name=memoria>{{cite web|url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-96669.html|title=Alianza con la derecha para enfrentar a la Unidad Popular|publisher=Memoria Chilena|language=es}}</ref> On June 11, 1973 he declared: "It would seem that the country has lost its historical identity, the defining features of its personality as a nation (...) Our traditional respect for the law, the authorities and the institutions of the State, the basis of our republican institutionality, seem like legendary memories. Now the laws are despised as hindrances, often flouted by those in charge of their execution and replaced by faits accomplis (...) a reality that has broken our democratic institutionality; a reality that seems to threaten us with the terrible dilemma of allowing ourselves to be overwhelmed by totalitarian imposition or to be dragged into a bloody confrontation among Chileans".<ref name=RMC/>

During the [[Salvador Allende]] regime, Patricio Aylwin was a prominent opositor<ref>[https://youtu.be/nCyPa2avnGA?t=41 Protesta contra el Comunismo - Chile 1972]</ref> being an anticommunist critic and having made an alliance with the right-wing called Democratic Confederation (Confederación Democrática, CODE).<ref name=memoria>{{cite web|url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-96669.html|title=Alianza con la derecha para enfrentar a la Unidad Popular|publisher=Memoria Chilena|language=es}}</ref> On June 11, 1973 he declared: "It would seem that the country has lost its historical identity, the defining features of its personality as a nation (...) Our traditional respect for the law, the authorities and the institutions of the State, the basis of our republican institutionality, seem like legendary memories. Now the laws are despised as hindrances, often flouted by those in charge of their execution and replaced by faits accomplis (...) a reality that has broken our democratic institutionality; a reality that seems to threaten us with the terrible dilemma of allowing ourselves to be overwhelmed by totalitarian imposition or to be dragged into a bloody confrontation among Chileans".<ref name=RMC/>

Aylwin also said: "Allende made a bad government that fell due to the weaknesses of him and his people".

Aylwin said: "[if given the choice between] a Marxist dictatorship and a dictatorship of our military, I would choose the latter".<ref name=frases/> Aylwin also said years later: "Allende made a bad government that fell due to the weaknesses of him and his followers" and

He was perfectly aware of the meetings of generals (mostly pro-Christian Democracy), who were preparing the military intervention, as revealed in the book "De Conspiraciones y Justicia", by Sergio Arellano Iturriaga, who in 1973 was a young Christian Democrat who served as a liaison between one of the conspirator generals, his father, and Senator Patricio Aylwin. Aylwin, when his talks with President Allende finally failed, called the young Arellano to inform him of the rupture, which implied giving the green light to the military ''pronunciamiento''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2012/05/por-que-aylwin-debe-ser-castigado.html|title=POR QUÉ AYLWIN DEBE SER CASTIGADO|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s blog|date=May 28, 2012|language=es}}</ref>

He was perfectly aware of the meetings of generals (mostly pro-Christian Democracy), who were preparing the military intervention, as revealed in the book "De Conspiraciones y Justicia", by Sergio Arellano Iturriaga, who in 1973 was a young Christian Democrat who served as a liaison between one of the conspirator generals, his father, and Senator Patricio Aylwin. Aylwin, when his talks with President Allende finally failed, called the young Arellano to inform him of the rupture, which implied giving the green light to the military ''pronunciamiento''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2012/05/por-que-aylwin-debe-ser-castigado.html|title=POR QUÉ AYLWIN DEBE SER CASTIGADO|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s blog|date=May 28, 2012|language=es}}</ref>

On 1995, in a speech given to the Gulbelkian Foundation in [[Lisbon]], he said that "the Chilean dictatorship was not that of a charismatic caudillo, like so many in the Third World, but the institutional government of the Armed Forces". He also said that during the Military Government "not everything was black", and highlighted works such as "the economic reforms of reorganization, liberalization and opening of the Chilean economy".

On 1995, in a speech given to the Gulbelkian Foundation in [[Lisbon]], he said that "the Chilean dictatorship was not that of a charismatic caudillo, like so many in the Third World, but the institutional government of the Armed Forces". He also said that during the Military Government "not everything was black", and highlighted works such as "the economic reforms of reorganization, liberalization and opening of the Chilean economy".

He added that "beyond my political differences with General Pinochet, as a ruler I believe that his presence contributed to the fact that we did not have any episode of that nature in the Chilean transition", and that "I never saw any danger of a possible rupture of the institutions during my term of office".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elquehaydecierto.cl/noticia/sociedad/las-frases-historicas-de-patricio-aylwin-sobre-augusto-pinochet-y-salvador-allende|publisher=QueHayDeCierto|date=April 21, 2016|language=es|title=Las frases históricas de Patricio Aylwin sobre Augusto Pinochet y Salvador Allende}}</ref>

He added that "beyond my political differences with General Pinochet, as a ruler I believe that his presence contributed to the fact that we did not have any episode of that nature in the Chilean transition", and that "I never saw any danger of a possible rupture of the institutions during my term of office".<ref name=frases>{{cite web|url=https://www.elquehaydecierto.cl/noticia/sociedad/las-frases-historicas-de-patricio-aylwin-sobre-augusto-pinochet-y-salvador-allende|publisher=QueHayDeCierto|date=April 21, 2016|language=es|title=Las frases históricas de Patricio Aylwin sobre Augusto Pinochet y Salvador Allende}}</ref>

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