（在1988年公民投票中）击败皮诺切特（并在1989年大选中击败其总统候选人）的中左翼联盟十分明智，他们坚持并在某些情况下深化了从军政府那里承袭下来的有效的自由市场政策。
The center-left coalition that defeated Pinochet (in a 1988 plebiscite and his presidential candidate in the 1989 election) has been wise enough to keep, and in some cases deepen, the sound free-market policies inherited from the military government.