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OOC:Alright then, anyone mind if I make colonel? I originally made this character just to make a big impact in the election and didn't give much thought to him, I want to give it a go as a military man.

((I am not the best person to ask. Have only had the one character.))
 
Minister of Interior: Augusto Weissmuller (yourworstnightm) - ABSTAIN
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Lorenzo Subercaseaux (Lyonnessian) - REPUBLIC
Minister of Treasury: Carlos Andonie (rudders10) - REPUBLIC
Minister of War: Pedro Rivera (atomicsoda) - REPUBLIC
Minister of National Reform: Valentin Severino (Syriana) - REPUBLIC

Chief of Staff: ((Vargas - but he's not around))
Grand Admiral of the Navy: Gabriel Alvarez (Gloa) - REPUBLIC
Army of the North: Angelo Araya (cavebear3000) - COUP
Army of the South: Abelardo de Vasces (OConner) - REPUBLIC
Army of Patagonia: Severiano Miramontes (Ivir Baggins) - REPUBLIC

And so, Angelo Araya stands alone. I'll try to get this update in today, but I might not... I'm pretty busy tonight. I'll give it a try.
 
OOC: Thunderhawk please kill my character during the coup, perhaps in a raid of some kind against Araya.
 
It gladdens the heart to see glorious Republican beautious Democratic Chile beat off the advances of a tyrant. There is sense in the government, to see no one join this travesty of a coup.

Chile is unconquerable, in her glorious freedom, and will always be.

Chile para los chilenos!
 
OOC: Thunderhawk please kill my character during the coup, perhaps in a raid of some kind against Araya.

If it comes to it, kill my character off as well. :p If you can't or it's not necessary, then please don't.
 
I should point out that he said multiple times that he fought for the Conservatives. Maybe we should consider forbidding the party and incarcerating its members. Only the time for us to conduct a good and complete investigation and to seek deeper roots, hidden supports within the party. Of course, this is merely a proposal.
 
((Kill de Caviezel off too. He said that he wanted to die a martyr, so he did.))
 
The 1876 Coup: Backlash​

The aftermath of the 1876 Presidential Election brought nothing but turmoil to Chile. The Conservatives, outraged by their perceived disenfranchisement during the election, called for an immediate end to the Republicanos and broke off to form their own splinter party: the Nacionales. Talks to rename this party were ongoing as the time neared for Carlos Andonie to take his office. Another fracture occurred in the Socialist FNT party following the untimely assassination of their charismatic leader, Carlos Carnal. Carnal, viewed almost universally as the FNT's public face and leader, was soon revealed to be the only thing holding the FNT together as Osvaldo Tamiuszki and his radicals broke off to form the Comunistas. The Chilean political scene now played host to five parties, two of them created out of rage and disappoint at electoral defeat. Only the Liberales, still riding high from their 1876 victory, remained untouched.

As the time neared for Carlos Andonie to take office, rumbling within the incumbent Cortez administration erupted into outright rebellion. The general of the Army of the North, Angelo Araya, soon showed his true colors and (with the backing of President Cortez himself) declared that his army would march on Santiago and ensure that the Cortez administration remained in power. Though the largest of Chile's three armies, Araya's 51,000 soon found themselves outnumbered by the 75,000 of the Army of the South and Patagonia which, under de Vasces and Miramontes, declared their support for the Republic. Also devoid of support in the civilian administration other than the President himself (many suggested that Augusto Weissmuller would have backed the proposition had he not been out of the country), Araya dug into Copiapo, hoping to defeat his two enemies in a defensive battle and thus cut off reinforcements from Bolivia and Peru.

After three months, in early march, De Vasces joined the battle, attacking Copiapo in as cavalier a fashion as a defender of the Republic could have been expected to be, while Miramontes surrounded the rebel-occupied city. The fierce battle raged for three weeks, every day claiming the lives of thousands of Chileans. While Miramontes found himself alone and cut off, De Vasces continued to receive reinforcements from both Miramontes and all the disparate militias of Chile, as both the Citizen and Red Guards heeded the calls of their leaders to fight the reactionary Araya with all their might. Araya had only a small trickle of reactionary supporters to back him. It may have been bitter irony that Simon German, the legendary leader of the Citizen Guard, met his end at one of Araya's bullets at Copiapo, and thus died defending the Republic that he had tried so hard to overthrow.

Araya, to his credit, did not surrender and neither did his men. While military observers said that they believed Araya was perhaps the more skilled of the two generals that clashed at Copiapo, he was eventually forced to relent against both the clever De Vasces' tactics and superior numbers. On May 5th, 1876, after a two-month long battle, Araya finally ran out of soldiers. The rebel general himself was found dead in his field headquarters, though the cause of his death remains disputed to this day. The battle had claimed the lives of more than 75,000 Chilean soldiers, including 51,000 of Araya's and 24,000 of De Vasces. The dead among the militias were never counted, but De Vasces and Miramontes reported that none remained standing when the conflict finally drew to its close.

As for the President Alejandro Cortez, who had himself come to power opposing a coup, he was immediately arrested for supporting one. As all his orders to his ministers to support the coup had met with bold-faced refusal, no one ever came to his aid, and he was arrested by the local police at its outset. As the Congreso, with weary sighs around, prepared for another trial and Carlos Andonie took the office of president a month early (with the Chilean army less than half the size it had been a few months ago), one newspaper ran the headline: "First major uprising in nearly a year suppressed!" Though the obscure 1875 anarcho-liberal rebellion to which the paper drolly referred was much smaller than that of the 1876 Coup or the 1873 Uprising, many sensed that there was truth in that title, and still much bloodshed in Chile's future.


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And there you have it. If you wanted your character to die in that battle, by all means have him do so.

Andonie, I imagine you're going to want to pick a new cabinet and appoint new generals now that you've lost the entire army of the north. Please do so as promptly as possible. You still need to cooperate with the CoS.

And -sigh- this period will serve as a second lame duck period, so on the off chance someone else wants to declare another coup before Andonie's policy changes take effect, now is the time to do so.

We'll vote on Cortez's innocence or guilt later. Cortez ((Zzzzz...)) and Araya ((cavebear3000)) backed the wrong side and are disenfranchised until 1881.
 
Name: Colonel Gustavo Jurarez
Date of Birth: 1843
Occupation: Colonel in the Army of Pantagona.
Background: Born to one of the last aristocratic family's in chile to a father who had squandered the family's wealth on hookers and booze and a mother who was rarely around, Gustavo dedicated himself from his studies and spending the rest of his time doing a series of odd-jobs and other work to pay his way through college. Leaving his home as soon as possible at age and going to the college of Santiago, before transferring to the Military Academy of Pantagona where he majored in Army engineering and graduated top of his class
Political Party-Nacionales
OOC: Also I am having trouble posting a pic but he looks like this.
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&h...tart=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0&tx=18&ty=39
 
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Cortez should be shot in his cell. A bullet in the back of the neck is all he deserves. Let's not waste money on a trial.


((I know he has to be judged (according to the rules) but I act the way my character would


LeeroyJenkins, you should explain how your previous character died :) ))
 
I was hoping TH would put it in his update :/
Anyway let's say he died valiantly in Copiapo.
 
Name: Colonel Sebastian Hidalgo
Birth: 1847
Occupation: Reserve Colonel; Army of the South
Background: Following in his father's footsteps, Sebastian enlisted in the reserves at a young age. Showing exemplary skill at command and combat, he was given the rank of Major. Following the death of his older brother, Javier, during the Civil War in 1863, Sebastian became a stout advocate for military power and grew a strong distaste for the government currently in power. Following his father's defection to the Nationalist cause, Sebastian, stricken with grief and shocked with surprise, was called to serve in the Army of the South as an infantry colonel. He served in the Battle of Copiapo, and claimed himself that his heart "felt the strangest of pains and sadness, as if feeling for the loss of my father on the field." Despite having cleared his name after fighting against the rebellion his own father had participated in, Sebastian is still a member of the Nacionales - but plans to not make the same mistakes of his late father.
Party: Nacionales

((EDIT: This DOES remind me that we need an updated Character List :p))
 
Name: Colonel Sebastian Hidalgo
Birth: 1847
Occupation: Reserve Colonel; Army of the South
Background: Following in his father's footsteps, Sebastian enlisted in the reserves at a young age. Showing exemplary skill at command and combat, he was given the rank of Major. Following the death of his older brother, Javier, during the Civil War in 1863, Sebastian became a stout advocate for military power and grew a strong distaste for the government currently in power. Following his father's defection to the Nationalist cause, Sebastian, stricken with grief and shocked with surprise, was called to serve in the Army of the South as an infantry colonel. He served in the Battle of Copiapo, and claimed himself that his heart "felt the strangest of pains and sadness, as if feeling for the loss of my father on the field." Despite having cleared his name after fighting against the rebellion his own father had participated in, Sebastian is still a member of the Nacionales - but plans to not make the same mistakes of his late father.
Party: Nacionales
OOC: Are ranks are swelling.
 
(Wait, so is the Andonie administration and cabinet currently in power?)
 
(Wait, so is the Andonie administration and cabinet currently in power?)

((Not the Ministers or Generals, but Andonie is retaining his power. The coup actually had a somewhat-decent amount of support but most of the supportees weren't on the list of Important Peoples, myself and Cortez included.))
 
(Wait, so is the Andonie administration and cabinet currently in power?)

No. I suspect Andonie is going to want to shuffle his cabinet, so we've still got the Cortez administration and cabinet yet to leave office.