How Chileans Voted Out a Dictator

The 1988 plebiscite was supposed to cement General Pinochet’s power for eight more years. Instead, he got the boot.

The campaign to say “no” to Pinochet featured a rainbow, putting a positive spin on a negative word. The image above is my adaptation of the campaign’s logo.

On September 11, 1973, the Chilean Armed Forces toppled the democratically elected government of Chile. Over the next several years, the military regime would leave three thousand dead-disappeared and 30,000…