<P> Chile's new constitution was approved in a national plebiscite held on September 11, 1980 . The constitution was approved by 66% of voters under a process which has been described as "highly irregular and undemocratic ." Critics of the 1980 Constitution argue that the constitution was created not to build a democracy, but to consolidate power within the central government while limiting the amount of sovereignty allowed to the people with little political presence . The constitution came into force on March 11, 1981 . </P> <P> In 1985, due to the Caso Degollados scandal ("case of the slit throats"), General César Mendoza resigned and was replaced by General Rodolfo Stange . </P> <P> One of the first measures of the dictatorship was to set up a Secretaría Nacional de la Juventud (SNJ, National Youth Office). This was done on October 28 1973, even before the Declaration of Principles of the junta made in March 1974 . This was a way of mobilizing sympathetic elements of the civil society in support for the dictatorship . SNJ was created by advise of Jaime Guzmán, being an example of the dictatorship adopting a Gremialist thought . From 1975 to 1980 the SNJ arranged a series of ritualized acts in cerro Chacarillas reminiscent of Francoist Spain . The policy towards the sympathetic youth contrasted with the murder, surveillance and forced disappearances the dissident youth faced from the regime . Most of the documents of the SNJ would have been destroyed by the dictatorship in 1988 . </P> <P> One of the counter-Pinochet government organizations was named MIR, Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, and it conducted several operations against the Pinochet government until the late 1980s . MIR assassinated the head of the Army Intelligence school, Lieutenant Roger Vergara, with machine gun fire in the late 1970s . The MIR also executed an attack on the base of the Chilean Secret Police (Centro Nacional de Informacion), as well as several attempts on the lives of carabinero officials and a judge of the Supreme Court in Chile . Throughout the beginning years of the dictatorship the MIR was low - profile, but in August 1981 the MIR successfully killed the military leader of Santiago, General Carol Urzua Ibanez . Attacks on Chilean military official increased in the early 1980s, with the MIR killing several security forces personnel on a variety of occasions through extensive use of planted bombs in police stations or machine gun use </P>

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