Weavers of Revolution: Latin America

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Different Latin America countries underwent revolutions that were crucial to their history. Most of these Latin America countries resolved to use violent means as a way of achieving the solution. However, Chile chose a different path, a nonviolent way of achieving change. Chile was more dynamic in the paths they chose to follow. Their violent and non-violent means that saw both the working class and higher social classes clash in ideas. In his book “Weavers of Revolution,” Peter Winn tells the story of how Chilean revolution unfolded based on the accounts of the participants. The central argument of the book is that the socialism in Chile that started at the Yarur plant was the turning point for the country on the road to socialism.
In this story, the Yarur company and its workers are central to the narrative. This is because it was the company and its employees that engaged in a strike that initiated the nonviolent change process that began in Chile. From their actions, socialisms took shape in Chile, and for a period, they had victory even though it was short lived. They played an important role in making Chile different from Argentina and Mexico regarding revolutionary power. Whereas in those two countries the revolutionary power was only played through at the top government levels, in Chile there were bottom-up and top-down revolutions (Winn, 1986). The work lauds the role that the Yarur workers played in ensuring democracy and socialism in Chile. It was from the Yarur mills that the modern and traditional ways of doing things collided. Whereas the old workers at Yarur supported the traditional way of down things, the younger ones wanted a new way of ensuring change and controlling workers. However, the older workers grew sympathetic to the constant strike by these younger generations.
Nevertheless, the leader of the company, Amador Yarur refused to take note of this arguing that no one had the right to tell him how he should run his industry (Winn, 1986). The Yarur clan would later take control of the factory and begin their agenda of socialism. They often found themselves clashing with the government on several occasions.
To answer the question on who were the actual weavers of revolution, it is important to look at the events that let up to this revolution. The setting is in the 1970s where Yarur company tries to fight for to the independence of the Chilean government. They rebel and a promising presidential candidate, Allende, emerges with the promise of representing the interests of the common man. He ends up earning the support of these common people and ascends to power. However, Allende and his supporters realize that they have different expectations and plans for the future.
For this reason, they start working against him, withdrawing the support they gave him and eventually leading to his downfall. This is what set off the revolution. People were revolting from below, and they were made up of the Yarur employees rebelling against...