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"I shall manage the funeral of Mateo Saez. It will be a full state funeral, of the sort conferred only upon those who have done a great service to Chile. In Saez's case, his achievements in foreign policy, though not ideal, warrant a state funeral."

Sebastian Montenegro
Vice-President of Chile
 
"I will, as well, gladly accept my position as minister of Education and Propaganda. It is only through the ideological purity of Fascism, dictated explicitly by the late Caudillo Mateo Saez, that Chile will be able to not only militarily, economically, and socially overcome its adversaries, but morally as well. We, Chileans, stand strong, for the Fatherland!"

-Minister of Education and Propaganda, Ernesto Nostrada
 
It is a shame we lost a great statesman today, but I have to admit I had lost most of my sympathies for him towards his very end. He had devised his own way, alien from the conservative policies I had previously enacted, and sought to change our nationalist government for a fascist government from the inside out. I had agreed partially with him when I supported the Third Way, but it was getting out of hand. I am sorry for his loss for he was also a good and smart man, and I will send flowers to the widow and my condolences to his family.
 
It is a shame that the assassin only managed to dispatch one of the many vultures ruling over Chile. They circle the dying nation, hoping to get the first bite. PEOPLE OF CHILE! THROW AWAY THESE VULTURES! Do no let Chile become a dead husk for the amusement of these vultures!

- Mantiago Retruécano
 
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Suirantes said:
OOC: Could I join?
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You may, but just so you know OOC statements are not allowed in this thread. If you have any questions, you should PM me.
 
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A quick historical recap by a random historian

The last decades have seen much bloodshed and battles. The long lived democratic republic had showed its flaws by 1900 when the conservative government led by president De Conti found itself unable to defeat the communist revolutionaries. By 1901 the communists had taken over the capital and raised the hammer and sickle over the presidential palace. Wanting to regroup for a counterattack, the president, all of the navy and a force of 24.000 soldiers fled to the distant Chilean province of Panama. The anticommunist politicians, thearmy and the clergy took matters into their own hands and attacked the capital. The communists were defeated but the old democratic government was not recognized by the anticommunist administration. These anticommunists, led by Caudillo Fernandez banned elections and the communist and socialist parties. The remnants of the communists and the socialists fled to the Andes, where they actively fight the new government as the resistance. Meanwhile, the old president and the navy alienated themselves from Fernandez's nationalist government. War between the two seemed inevitable, but somehow the two leaders reached a truce: they allied against the resistance. And so, the anticommunists have ruled for 15 years. Old dictator Fernandez declared he didnt want to rule for ever, and gave the power to choose a successor to the state party, the National Front. While Fernandez has always been a conservative, some of his most vocal supporters adopted a different ideology: fascism. The symbol of this new ideology was Saez. When Fernandez succesor was elected, the party chose a fascist so the gocernment and the party slowly shifted into fascism. The liberals, united under Fernandez by their fear of communism, now feeled alienated and sought to create their own party. Complicating things, Fernandez's sucessor enabled aristocrats to vote for a next Caudillo, so the fascist government may find its first democratic opposition ever.
Meanwhile, the fascists waged expansionist wars all over South America. In a specific war, de Conti's exiled government defeated France but they were utterly defeated by the USA later. Now there are remnants in the caribbean andtheir future is incertain. The fascist government, now lead by Caudillo Fuentes, sought to rebuild the chilean navy as De Conti had fled with the original navy. But when the new caudillo fuentes assumed control of the country, Fernandez (now a minister) gave him grave news: the resistance are now numbered little over a million.
 
thekinguter said:
A quick historical recap by a random historian

The last decades have seen much bloodshed and battles. The long lived democratic republic had showed its flaws by 1900 when the conservative government led by president De Conti found itself unable to defeat the communist revolutionaries. By 1901 the communists had taken over the capital and raised the hammer and sickle over the presidential palace. Wanting to regroup for a counterattack, the president, all of the navy and a force of 24.000 soldiers fled to the distant Chilean province of Panama. The anticommunist politicians, thearmy and the clergy took matters into their own hands and attacked the capital. The communists were defeated but the old democratic government was not recognized by the anticommunist administration. These anticommunists, led by Caudillo Fernandez banned elections and the communist and socialist parties. The remnants of the communists and the socialists fled to the Andes, where they actively fight the new government as the resistance. Meanwhile, the old president and the navy alienated themselves from Fernandez's nationalist government. War between the two seemed inevitable, but somehow the two leaders reached a truce: they allied against the resistance. And so, the anticommunists have ruled for 15 years. Old dictator Fernandez declared he didnt want to rule for ever, and gave the power to choose a successor to the state party, the National Front. While Fernandez has always been a conservative, some of his most vocal supporters adopted a different ideology: fascism. The symbol of this new ideology was Saez. When Fernandez succesor was elected, the party chose a fascist so the gocernment and the party slowly shifted into fascism. The liberals, united under Fernandez by their fear of communism, now feeled alienated and sought to create their own party. Complicating things, Fernandez's sucessor enabled aristocrats to vote for a next Caudillo, so the fascist government may find its first democratic opposition ever.
Meanwhile, the fascists waged expansionist wars all over South America. In a specific war, de Conti's exiled government defeated France but they were utterly defeated by the USA later. Now there are remnants in the caribbean andtheir future is incertain. The fascist government, now lead by Caudillo Fuentes, sought to rebuild the chilean navy as De Conti had fled with the original navy. But when the new caudillo fuentes assumed control of the country, Fernandez (now a minister) gave him grave news: the resistance are now numbered little over a million.
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Was it not 1898 when the communists captured Santiago, and then the following year when I retook it?
 
A quick historical recap by a random historian from what remained of the Chilean Free State

Chile had been unstable for a long time. Much of this began when newly elected President Cesar Roseno declared himself Emperor of Chile in 1856, using his military appointments and the confusion of his political opposition to sweep away any democratic resistance. By 1863, the Empire of Chile had crumbled to "Republicano" forces (a loose coalition of the various forces which opposed him), but military men learned that coups could be very successful in swaying Chile to their causes. To counter such actions as Roseno's, the government set up a "Chief of Staff" position, who would have to approve of the President's military appointments - hopefully as a method of gaining balance and avoiding a military only loyal to one party. While this seemed to work, it was often seen as cumbersome - and the diverse ranks of the military often included radical elements from fringe political parties and groups.

Thus, coup's became routine in Chile. It was a joke, almost - until 1898 (with the exception of 1886, where the fierce battles were hotly contested for a long period. While forgotten and dismissed later on by most Chileans, the coup in 1886 was very close to toppling the Republic). The bitterly partisan political landscape before the election of President De Conti and Chief of Staff Rios created a chasm between the two individuals. With rumors of coups from reactionaries (who formed the bulk of De Conti's appointments) and communists/socialists (the FNT in particular, of which Rios was influential in), a Constitutional Crisis erupted as the two figures could not agree on military appointments.

The laws had no clear direction for what to do if neither side would budge, and the situation degraded further as more rumors and paranoia spread. A half-and-half situation was in place (de facto control of half the army was under Rios, and half under the President) for awhile, but was blamed for military humiliation in the war with Argentina.

The crisis boiled over as Rios' allies declared a coup to form a dictatorship of the proletariat (in response to legislation by the President's supporters which would have ended the situation by divesting Rios of power). With several socialist armies threatening Santiago, De Conti chose the Alvarez Plan to evacuate the civilian government to safety (via the sea, as the navy was considered to be quite loyal to the republic) until Santiago was retaken.

However, as he fled he would find that further plans would be complicated as the non-socialist generals took orders instead from a new leadership - largely under the guidance of Minister Fernandez - which declared the democratic institutions of the republic to be too cumbersome and flawed. They became known as the Nationalists by some. The only loyalist troops remaining were the Garrison left in the Panama Canal Zone.

After a long fight, Rios' coup was defeated by the Nationalists, who then took over the governance of the Chilean mainland, or the Continental Administration. Due to the presence of the Navy and the Canal Garrison in Panama, the Republic's governance continued there - although President De Conti declared emergency regulations to form the Chilean Free State and reorganize the government as the old election system became logistically impossible. Due to its constant worries and irregular recognition from the outside world, elections were continually postponed again and again.

The Nationalists expanded the army and solidified control over the state, although a Resistance formed, and dissent was heard in mainland Chile and in the Free State. Several expansionary wars were taken, which provoked responses from France and the United States. Although they were fighting against the Continental Administration, much of this fighting took place in areas controlled by the Free State. Against the French the Free State gained the island of Martinique and thus new naval capacities - but against the Americans the Canal Zone was overrun (with the current Continental Administration looking for ways to force the Americans out of it again).
 
A very random recap from the Peasant Guard, a large resistance gang lead by Francisco Villa.
-The Nationalists are bastards, the Free Stateers are cowards. The resistance is now a million men strong our rise is inevitable. It is only a matter of time, we have slated the tyrant Saez and soon all the other nationalists will suffer the same fate. We are the resistance, we do not forgive, we do not forget, expect us.
 
A random recap of events by a leftist historian:

The reason for the Second Rosenoist Tyranny lies on one man only, and that's president de Conti. His greed and will to oppress the people and create his own Dictatorship backfired heavily. He created the crisis with Rios. through deliberately driving him over the edge, and forcing him to betray the Republic. de Conti had falsely believed the military would back him up and make him the new Emperor of Chile. The fool. The military had had it's own plans for decades, and they saw the war between Rios and de Conti as the opportune moment to strike. de Conti's forces were easily defeated by Rios' men, since most of the army had rallied around the future Caudillo Fernandez. And thus in 1898 Fernandez crushed Rios' armies and a dark era was born. Another tyrannic government, just like Cesar Roseno's was in power in Chile, and just like Cesar Roseno they considered their main objective to oppress the Chilean people, and as much other people as possible. But in the darkness a Resistance was born, first from the surviving FNT members, but later people with other political backgrounds joined. The Resistance will crush the Rosenoists and a new Republic will be born.
 
Okay, well, I still haven't received any appointments from Maxwell correcting the problems I mentioned, so I'm just going to go ahead and update.
 
Name: Xavier Kvaratskhelia
Born: 1872
Party: Nationalist.
Occupation: Colonel in the Chilean Army.
Background: Was born to rich immigrants from Georgia, his parents were nationalistic in their views and Xavier followed in their footsteps. He rose through the ranks during the bloody civil war to become the Colonel he is today. Is still a nationalist today and greatly supports the current government.
 
MastahCheef117 said:
Was it not 1898 when the communists captured Santiago, and then the following year when I retook it?
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Nah, you didn't. You just Gogołów'd it all up.

- Mantiago Retruécano
 
Fuentes 1911: Peace As White As Snow​
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Caudillo Fuentes began his term with a meeting of the National Republic's military leadership in Santiago. The issue on the agenda, he said, was Panama. The United States must be made to return the crucial province of Panama to national control. Former leader and then General Fernandez was the first to propose a solution: obtain military access from Colombia, use that access to launch an over-land reconquest of the canal zone, then use the canal zone to launch attacks on Central America and Spanish Cuba and Puerto Rico. Fuentes personally approved the plan, and the ministry of foreign affairs immediately began to lobby the Colombian government for military access. While the armies of Chile moved into the Amazon territories in preparation for the planned action, word of Colombian refusal returned to Chile. When the foreign office informed Fuentes of the news, he again called a meeting of military leaders to discuss new possibilities.

An amphibious retaking of the canal zone was quickly ruled out, as the enormous military expansion that the Caudillo had ordered would consumed most of the military's recruitment capacity for months. An over-land invasion of Colombia to reach Panama seemed plausible, the Caudillo was informed, but there were two problems. First, the near non-existent infrastructure in newly acquired Amazon territories meant that armies entering Colombia would suffer large attrition, and the heavily fortified Colombian borders would prove difficult to occupy. The Colombian standing army of nearly a hundred thousand soldiers could potentially present its own annoyances. While the Ministry of War under Escovedo ordered the armies on the border to maintain ready status in case of an invasion of Colombia, new developments on distant shores made the wars in South America seem petty.

In February, 1911, France declared war on Germany over colonial West Morocco. Sensing weakness, the United Kingdom went to war with France and her allies: Italy, Denmark, Austria, Portugal, Spain, and the Ottoman Empire over the French colonial province of Sierra Leone. Russia and the United States were, at the same time, both at war with Chile, vainly attempting to contain the fascist expansion of the Empire. This period, called The Great War in Europe, marked the contentious period in practically a century. Every one of the world's great powers, save the Confederate States, were at war with one another, albeit not for long. On March 6th, 1911, Russia and Chile signed an equal peace treaty, allowing Russia to exit a war she had hardly participated in. The United States stood alone in attempting a containment of Chile.

Signs of agitation on the homefront, however, still threatened the National Republic. Fuentes aborted his planned invasion of Colombia in May, when a Bolivian nationalist uprising forced him to recall several armies from the front to contain the rebels. Perhaps sensing a weakness, the United States attempted a landing on the island of Martinique less than a week later with a force of 27,000, met by an equal force of the remnants of the Free State Army. The Free State Navy engaged the transport flotilla but was not able to stop the landing (though they later sunk the transport fleet). The battle between US forces and the remnants of the Free State Army ended in a decisive Chilean victory. After nearly a month of charging heavily fortified positions on the island, subject to brutal overlapping fire and bombarded by modern artillery, the American force surrendered on June 12th. The victory gave Fuentes the leverage he needed to pass a peace treaty but (much to his annoyance), the Americans agreed to return control of the Canal Zone to the Free State, not the mainland government, in exchange for the release of American prisoners.

At least, the papers said, Chile was at peace.

That was not to last long. On June 20th, 1911, after more than a decade of plotting, a million Jacobin rebels rose across Chile (to compare to the roughly half-million men of the Chilean armed forces at that time). An alarmed Caitán Crazzio informed Caudillo Fuentes that two million communist rebels would soon be hot on their heels.

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Constitution of the National Republic


I. Organisation of the State

i. the National Republic is led by the Caudillo, who is elected by the Frente Nacional
ii. the Caudillo answers to the Executive Committee of the Frente Nacional, whos members are elected for a 12 year term.
iii. the Senate is elected by the Electoral Committee of the Frente Nacional
iv. the Chamber of Nationals is elected by the people


II. Powers of the Caudillo

i. the Caudillo has the sole right to appoint Ministers, Generals and Admirals
ii. the Caudillo has the sole right to dissolve the Senate and Chamber of Nationals
iii. the Caudillo may pass a law without calling a vote
iv. the Caudillo cannot be impeached
v. the Caudillo has the sole right to initiate alliances and declare war


III. Powers of the Executive Committee

i. the Committee shall run the affairs of the Frente Nacional
ii. the Committee has the right to appoint people to the party hierarchy


IV. Senate and Chamber of Nationals

i. the Senate shall review and comment on laws passed.
ii. the Chamber of Nationals may propose laws to the Caudillo.
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Player Actions Needed:
Vote Yes/No on the new Constitution of Chile. Additionally, there's a revolution, so I need votes For the Government or For the Revolution from all the principle officers of government.

Sample votes look like this:
Constitution of the National Republic: Yes/No

Sample declarations look like this:
I'm for the Revolution!
I'm for the Government!

Voting closes 10 AM PST on the 21st.
 
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HAHA! This wretched hive of tyranny and bad breath will be brought down! I have always said that the brown coat control of Chile was gaseuous at best, and look how correct my ingenuous assertions have proven. The time for peas is over. We have already given them that onion. Lettuce bring down this rotten edifice! Arise ye people of Chile! Do not let these vultures eat any more of our precious chili! ARISE! FOR CHILE!

- Mantiago Retruécano
 
I am baffled by Mantiago's statement, this rebellion will be brought down by the righteous government of Chile! Our Ruler isn't a tyrant! He is the saviour of our nation! Rise people of Chile, RISE AGAINST THE EVIL JACOBINS AND COMMUNISTS!

-Xavier Kvaratskhelia
 
"I vote For the new constitution, since it clarifies the government of the nation.

"Furthermore, I am For the Government! These rebels seek only to destroy all that is good in Chile, and bring it back to the bad days of Simon German and Carlos Andonie."

Sebastian Montenegro
Vice President of Chile
Editor of the Aurora de Chile
 
"I vote FOR the new Constitution as it will help the nation in many ways."

- Xavier Kvaratskhelia
 
Constitution of the National Republic: Yes!

I am also For the National Republic of Chile! These Jacobin rebels, as worthless as they are, must be stamped out!

- Gen. Sebastian Hidalgo
 
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