ocr: After 12 years of military rule under Pinochet, Chile returned to multiparty democracy in 1989. Main political: issues Human rights abuse trials The1989-1993. Aylwin administration resisted popular pressure to try laown members off the death squads which operated during the Pinochet regime. It argued that 1988: marked a time for: national: reconciliation, but lanew that the army, still headed by Pinochet, would: not tolerate any human rights trials. Poverty Opposition groups point out that the promised "trickle down" effect ofl Pinochet's S Chicago School economic policies has not: reached Chi ...