The rebellion fight with the vigor of righteousness and the spirit of the people. They have their hearts in the right place and fight for the purest reasons of all: freedom. Such an army can't lose.
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Here's the current tally.
Constitution of the National Republic:
Yes: 11
No:
Abstain: 2
Constitution of the National Republic:
Yes: 11
No:
Abstain: 2
I support the government
I apologize for my tardiness, long distance from the field to the Congress chamber, no? The government has my armies at their disposal to bring back stability to our National Republic.
I apologize for my tardiness, long distance from the field to the Congress chamber, no? The government has my armies at their disposal to bring back stability to our National Republic.
I also apologize for my absence; however, mine is for a different reason. I have struggled to decide who I supported. I have decided to support the government, but only on the condition that we actually enact meaningful reforms that will truly liberalize this state. I will admit freely to all my fellow members of government that I have grown tired of this authoritarian government, but I feel compelled to try, one last time, to change this government from within.
On that note, I oppose this new constitution.
On that note, I oppose this new constitution.
"I forecast that this system of government must last for ten to fifteen more years, after that, I believe Chile will be stabilised and ready to have a full democracy again."
~ El Caudillo
~ El Caudillo
The 1911-1913 Civil War, Part 1: The Year of the Revolution
The mass-Jacobin uprising, a tremendous show of support for a return to Republican governance, alarmed the fascist government of Chile in a way that no enemy declaration of war ever could. As millions of Chilean partisans took to the streets in the name of the democratic cause, Fuentes and his cabinet met in emergency session in Santiago. After consulting with Caitan Crazzio, head of the secret police, and the rest of his ministers, Fuentes ordered the immediate mobilization of Chilean reserves. He famously boasted to the heads of the military that with this addition, Chilean forces would number one and a half million, more than enough in his reckoning to suppress the rebellion. In point of fact, Fuentes had severely miscounted. Many of the brigades and armies he had ordered constituted at the outset of his presidency had yet to assemble, so even with the mobilization the Chilean army was just under a million persons. More troubling still, many among the army were not loyal to Fuentes and his Santiago government.
As the mobilized forces assembled, Fuentes recalled the armies from the Colombian border, dispatching De Porto and the 2nd Army Group to Paraguay to suppress the nationalist uprising there, and Hidalgo and the 1st Army Group to Argentina and Uruguay to defeat the equivalent movements there. All other military elements battled the rebels. Initially, progress against the Republican Guard seemed good - by August, De Porto had reported that he had driven the nationalists from Ascuncion, and from greater Paraguay by October. Hidalgo made similar progress in both Argentina and Uruguay. By November, though the rebels controlled much of the central coastline, the area around Santiago was secure and Fuentes confidently declared that the revolution had been defeated, saying in a short address that the government under the Frente Nacional would persist for another 10-20 years before a transition to democracy could become viable.
He had spoken much too soon. As Crazzio had predicted that winter, the Communists followed the Jacobins in November, the Red Guard taking to the streets throughout Chile. A revised estimate of their numbers put them at three million, half again stronger than the two million Crazzio had guessed several months prior. Unlike the Republican rebels, the Communists had thoroughly infiltrated the standing military in a way that the Republicans never had, and the communist uprising was followed by the mass defection of Chilean soldiers. By halfway through November, only 300,000 regular soldiers remained loyal to the fascist government. By December, that number had dropped to 200,000 as the Germanists and still more nationalists followed the Communists. Only Sebastian Hidalgo's 1st Army Group and the capital guard still stood with the National Republic. Most of Chile's remaining soldiers were left in Santiago, where a group of 80,000 conscripts and capital guards had heavily fortified the capital. Fuentes could reportedly hear the gunfire of fighting throughout the spring and summer from La Moneda.
Hidalgo was recalled to Santiago to oversee the defense of the capital in December. A second Jacobin uprising began on December 11th, supplementing the already swollen rebel forces with more than a half-million additional militants. As the 1911 became 1912, rebels controlled almost all of Chile beyond Santiago. Fuentes, after additional consideration, finally decided to give Hidalgo command of the Combined Armies of the Republic and ordered him to march north to Vinchina, where the rebel general Rivera had marshaled a force of more than a hundred thousand to march on Santiago - a force that had crushed De Porto and Varde earlier the previous year. Hidalgo met Rivera in early January, and the three-month long battle between the blackshirt army and the makeshift rebel militia ended in a stunning victory for Hidalgo. Though Hidalgo had sustained 40,000 casualties, Rivera's 100,000 had been killed, captured, wounded, or scattered, and Hidalgo famously telephoned Fuentes on March 10 to say that Vinchina was once again in Nationalist hands.
Fuentes was ecstatic at the news and called it "the turning point of the war," ordering Hidalgo to seize the remainder of northern Chile and Argentina proper from the rebel forces and re-establish the National Republic's authority. He never got the chance. The 3rd Jacobin Uprising began on March 11th, and as the Combined Army of the Republic entered the Villa San Jose, it was ambushed by another 100,000 man force of Rivera's "that had emerged as if from nowhere." The Combined Army was decimated and Hidalgo himself was killed in the ensuing fighting, and thus died the last of Chile's great fascist generals.
The Uprising also permeated through Santiago. Rivera arrived leading a force of 100,000 in late march to supplement the more than 50,000 insurgents and defectors in the city, ultimately defeating the capital garrison and destroying the last fascist stronghold in Chile. After a three-month siege, Rivera took the city in June. National liberation was declared on June 27th, 1912 with the creation of the Chilean Fourth Republic.
The remaining year was spent in one of the largest demobilizations in military history, as more than two million rebel soldiers laid down arms and returned to their homes. Rivera spent the year on the Colombian border, where the last 60,000 fascist soldiers finally surrendered to his forces. The Provisional Government of Chile, a revolutionary council serving until regular elections in 1913, called for plebiscites on the independence of countries conquered under fascist governance. The 6th Chilean Civil War was the bloodiest conflict anywhere in the Americas to that date, resulting in the death, injury, or displacement of more than 3,000,000 people. The exact number was not recorded, though a population estimate from the provisional government showed that the total population of Chile had dropped by nearly 2,000,000 from pre-war levels, the first time in the country's history that the figure had decreased.
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Long live the Republic. This heralds a return to democracy for Chile. Th eLiberals and communists fighting side by side has warmed my heart and shows what can be achieved when we put our diffrences aside.
Sain Cannodler
Liberal Leader
Sain Cannodler
Liberal Leader
"It has been a terrible time for Chile, and unless order is restored and traitors like the Communists and the Liberals are exterminated, then it will always be a terrible time for Chile. The order and prosperity of the Caudillo period has been replaced by the anarchy and destruction of the Fourth Republic, and there can be no future for Chile under these neglectful traitors if they are allowed to rule. All that evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing, and unless we good men of Chile fight back against this anarchic regime, then who can forsee what horrors we may face?"
Sebastian Montenegro
Vice-President of Chile (Temporary President)
Editor of the Aurora de Chile
Sebastian Montenegro
Vice-President of Chile (Temporary President)
Editor of the Aurora de Chile
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The 1911-1913 Civil War, Part 2: The Fate of the Fascists
The Fascist government of Chile, such as it was, did not survive the revolution, nor did its principal officers. Most of the National Republic's generals were killed in the line of duty. Such was the case with Varde and De Porto, who were tasked with the home guard of Chile and the suppression of Paraguayan nationalism, respectively. Though successful in their campaigns until November, 1911, both of the fascist officers found themselves surrounded and badly outnumbered by November, following the Communist uprising of that month. Their situation worsened by the December 2nd Jacobin uprising. Agents of the Red Guard had infiltrated both of their camps and most of their armies deserted them. Both were killed in the line of duty when they were surrounded at Vinchina by Rivera; Hidalgo arrived too late to relieve them. Hidalgo himself similarly fell to Rivera only after an exceptional fight.
Fernandez and Ferarri had more interesting ends than either Hidalgo or Varde, albeit less spectacular. When the remaining authorities of the Chilean Free State declared that they meant to fight for Chile, Caudillo Fuentes dispatched Ferarri on a special mission: to infiltrate the island of Martinique, stage a fascist rebellion, and secure the Chilean Navy. Ferarri, an exceptional general in many ways, did manage to infiltrate Martinique and stage a rebellion with more than 20,000 soldiers, though he ultimately lost the battle to the defending Free State Army. The fighting, however, forced Admiral Alvarez to scuttle most of the Free State's navy, except for one ship: the Emirante Williams, a brand-new dreadnought built in Martinique's advanced shipyard.
Fernandez, for his part, battled the northern Communists for more than a year until overrun by Gonzales in early 1913, just before the final defeat of the National Republic. Despite his endurance, Fernandez was ultimately a priest, not a general. At Gonzales insistence, he was captured alive and held to stand trial.
The members of the fascist cabinet, De Escovedo and Nostrada were captured when the city of Santiago fell to Rivera in March 1913. Fuentes, on the other hand, fled the city with a bold plan for escape. He meant to travel to Colombia or to Panama with the remaining fascist forces and make a stand there with his most loyal blackshirts and the remaining fascist forces of Chile, as the free staters had done before him. Ultimately, however, this plan never came to fruition - the Presidential Blackshirts, like virtually all units in Chile, had been infiltrated by the communists. Fuentes was taken by the Red Guard and summarily executed, his body then cremated.
At the end of the revolution, only Caitan Crazzio remained at large. Though he remained in Santiago until the final hours, when the siege of the city finally ended and Rivera stormed the city, Crazzio simply disappeared. Rumors about his death, or continued whereabouts, still circulate in the papers.
With the fascist government ended, most sides called for immediate elections - however, this demand proved impractical in the severely warn-torn and divided Chile. The Provisional Government instead chose to delay elections until 1915 and first scheduled plebiscites on the independence of the countries annexed under the fascist government: Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina, and the return of stolen territories to the Peruvian and Brazilian governments.
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Okay, here's the deal. We have three trials to vote on and six bills. There is currently no President (I am acting as the provisional government). Granting independence to Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina will greatly reduce our infamy. You can choose to either release them as fully independent or puppet governments. They will receive only the territories they had pre-war. The return of annexed territories to Peru and Brazil will restore the Chilean sphere (doing both will return the sphere to its pre-war status). So you have to vote Guilty/Not Guilty on Fernandez, Nostrada, and De Escovedo, Independent/Puppet/Keep on Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina, and Return/Keep on the Brazilian and Peruvian territories.
Sample Ballot:
Fernandez: Guilty/Not Guilty/Abstain
Nostrada: Guilty/Not Guilty/Abstain
De Escovedo: Guilty/Not Guilty/Abstain
Bolivia: Independent/Puppet/Keep/Abstain
Uruguay: Independent/Puppet/Keep/Abstain
Paraguay: Independent/Puppet/Keep/Abstain
Argentina: Independent/Puppet/Keep/Abstain
Brazil: Return/Keep/Abstain
Peru: Return/Keep/Abstain
EDIT: Voting closes 10 AM PST on the 23rd.
Oh, and of course, Cavebear3000, Riccardo93, Seek75, OldCleric, Red Cesar, Maxwell500, MastahCheef117, King50000, thekinguter, zagoroth, and OConner are all disenfranchised.
EDIT2: Right, Saez is dead...
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Ernesto Fernando Fuentes, father of Victor-Felipe, returned to Chile after his exile in Peru for 14 years. He felt it safe now to return as the Communists had triumphed. He remembered his past as the Communist General in the 5th Civil War, when he had been forced to fake his own death.
((My favorite character ever died. Oh well, it was an honorable death. And he kicked some a$$ while he was at it 
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Name: Daniel Palomino
Born: 1881
Party: Independent
Biography: Daniel was born fifteen years before the 1896 Presidential Election and the following Constitutional Crisis that made for the beginnings of the end of the Third Republic. He was, like his father, a staunch indenepdent and anti-nationalist; yet, he despised the communists and even the hardline socialists. When his father answered President de Conti's call-to-arms following the Communist Revolution of 1898, Daniel was, as only son, responsible for his mother and two sisters. However, news reached them that their father was unable to collect them in the escape to Panama - they had been, for all intensive purposes, left in a Chile embroiled in a deadly civil war. Following the Nationalist (later Fascist) victory, Daniel went into hiding, supporting and planning with the democratic members of the Chilean resistance. His father never returned from Panama - Daniel accepted the constant rumors that he had either died from malaria or yellow fever. Now an eloquent speaker and a self-made politician, with his mother deathly ill with tuberculosis and his sisters immigrants to the United States, Daniel looks upon a badly broken Chile with plans of bringing her back to her true ideals of Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Justice.
))Name: Daniel Palomino
Born: 1881
Party: Independent
Biography: Daniel was born fifteen years before the 1896 Presidential Election and the following Constitutional Crisis that made for the beginnings of the end of the Third Republic. He was, like his father, a staunch indenepdent and anti-nationalist; yet, he despised the communists and even the hardline socialists. When his father answered President de Conti's call-to-arms following the Communist Revolution of 1898, Daniel was, as only son, responsible for his mother and two sisters. However, news reached them that their father was unable to collect them in the escape to Panama - they had been, for all intensive purposes, left in a Chile embroiled in a deadly civil war. Following the Nationalist (later Fascist) victory, Daniel went into hiding, supporting and planning with the democratic members of the Chilean resistance. His father never returned from Panama - Daniel accepted the constant rumors that he had either died from malaria or yellow fever. Now an eloquent speaker and a self-made politician, with his mother deathly ill with tuberculosis and his sisters immigrants to the United States, Daniel looks upon a badly broken Chile with plans of bringing her back to her true ideals of Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Justice.
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All fascists and traitors of the Revolution should and will be given the strictest of punishments!
Fernandez: Guilty
Nostrada: Guilty
De Escovedo: Guilty
I am a socialist, I don't beleive in imperialism, we should release the nations we have under the yoke, and rebuild them into new glorious examples of democracy.
Bolivia: Puppet
Uruguay: Puppet
Paraguay: Puppet
Argentina: Puppet
I shall abstain on the Brazil and Peru land liberation until I know more about the Brazilian and Peruvian governments, wouldn't want to give the land and it's people over to tyrants after all.
Brazil: Abstain
Peru: Abstain
I just have one question, what happened to De Santa Rosa?
Fernandez: Guilty
Nostrada: Guilty
De Escovedo: Guilty
I am a socialist, I don't beleive in imperialism, we should release the nations we have under the yoke, and rebuild them into new glorious examples of democracy.
Bolivia: Puppet
Uruguay: Puppet
Paraguay: Puppet
Argentina: Puppet
I shall abstain on the Brazil and Peru land liberation until I know more about the Brazilian and Peruvian governments, wouldn't want to give the land and it's people over to tyrants after all.
Brazil: Abstain
Peru: Abstain
I just have one question, what happened to De Santa Rosa?
Well, it seems that I was mistaken. The massive rebel forces have, indeed, prevailed. Whether or not this will result in democracy, however, I am not so sure.
Regardless, I will stand trial and will accept whatever sentence that is judged to be an appropriate punishment, as per my role as a Colonel in the Nationalist armed forces.
-Ernst Thaumen
Regardless, I will stand trial and will accept whatever sentence that is judged to be an appropriate punishment, as per my role as a Colonel in the Nationalist armed forces.
-Ernst Thaumen
I would like to ask THe speaker, whose wisdom has spared him from our revolutionary justice if we can summit proposals before the provisonal government.
Fernandez: Guilty
Nostrada: Guilty
De Escovedo: Guilty
Bolivia: Puppet
Uruguay: Independent
Paraguay: Puppet
Argentina: Puppet
Brazil: Abstain
Peru: Abstain
Nostrada: Guilty
De Escovedo: Guilty
Bolivia: Puppet
Uruguay: Independent
Paraguay: Puppet
Argentina: Puppet
Brazil: Abstain
Peru: Abstain
Fernandez: Guilty
Nostrada: Guilty
De Escovedo: Guilty
Bolivia: Puppet
Uruguay: Puppet
Paraguay: Puppet
Argentina: Keep
Brazil: Keep
Peru: Keep
I will be restoring the Partido Republicano to begin organizing in preparation for the elections. The party is a centrist party dedicated to ensuring Chile remains a free democracy with a free economy. Liberals, conservatives and others are welcome to join us.
General Juan Rivera
Nostrada: Guilty
De Escovedo: Guilty
Bolivia: Puppet
Uruguay: Puppet
Paraguay: Puppet
Argentina: Keep
Brazil: Keep
Peru: Keep
I will be restoring the Partido Republicano to begin organizing in preparation for the elections. The party is a centrist party dedicated to ensuring Chile remains a free democracy with a free economy. Liberals, conservatives and others are welcome to join us.
General Juan Rivera
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These revolutionaries are clear examples of liars and tyrants! I was a naitonalist once, but I am no more ever since I saw the atrocities of the nationalist regime.
Fernandez: Guilty
Nostrada: Guilty
De Escovedo: Guilty
I think that these nations should retain some of their sovereignty, but should be under supervision of the democratic government.
Bolivia: Puppet
Uruguay: Puppet
Paraguay: Puppet
Argentina: Puppet
This land clearly belongs to both the nations, it would be too imperialistic to keep the land.
Brazil: Return
Peru: Return
- Xavier Kvaratskhelia, independent politician.
Fernandez: Guilty
Nostrada: Guilty
De Escovedo: Guilty
I think that these nations should retain some of their sovereignty, but should be under supervision of the democratic government.
Bolivia: Puppet
Uruguay: Puppet
Paraguay: Puppet
Argentina: Puppet
This land clearly belongs to both the nations, it would be too imperialistic to keep the land.
Brazil: Return
Peru: Return
- Xavier Kvaratskhelia, independent politician.
Now the tyranny of the facists has been overthrown I believe it is safe to reveal my true identity. I have been hiding under the psudenoym of Sain Cannodler for some time. Partly this was to evade capture from the facists and partly to avoid the stigma that my ancestry may bring. For when my letters are rearranged my true name of Carlos Andonie, lost illegitmate grandson of the former Presidente. He never knew I lived as he was unaware his own son had fathered me.
I have spent many years trying to undo the damage that he caused while rembereing that he was not always bad, he achieved growth like never before and was a great leader until power and betrayal turned him from the light. While his end results were wrong, the cause of Liberalism is just and good and I am therefore announcing the formation of the Renewed Liberales Party. While we are currently not in a position to return to the polls I seek support for the party and its ideals, Laissez Faire economics twinned with Free Trade, Secularism as the influence of the church has been shown with the evil Fernandez, Full Citizenship for all people deserve a chance and pro military.
On the issues of the trials I am still considering my votes for these are weighty matters.
Carlos Andonie the Third.
I have spent many years trying to undo the damage that he caused while rembereing that he was not always bad, he achieved growth like never before and was a great leader until power and betrayal turned him from the light. While his end results were wrong, the cause of Liberalism is just and good and I am therefore announcing the formation of the Renewed Liberales Party. While we are currently not in a position to return to the polls I seek support for the party and its ideals, Laissez Faire economics twinned with Free Trade, Secularism as the influence of the church has been shown with the evil Fernandez, Full Citizenship for all people deserve a chance and pro military.
On the issues of the trials I am still considering my votes for these are weighty matters.
Carlos Andonie the Third.