Planificación familiar en la Guerra Fría chilena: política sanitaria y cooperación internacional, 1960-1973

Abstract

This article seeks to document the links between the Chilean Family Planning Program and organizations such as the Population Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the UN between 1960 and 1973. Within the framework of the population policies imposed by the Cold War, it analyzes the trajectory of the Chilean medical community, which, by sharing in the ideological guidelines of the international agencies, understood said relationship more as an efficient instrument for limiting high abortion rates than as means to significantly reduce population growth.

This article seeks to document the links between the Chilean Family Planning Program and organizations such as the Population Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the UN between 1960 and 1973. Within the framework of the population policies imposed by the Cold War, it analyzes the trajectory of the Chilean medical community, which, by sharing in the ideological guidelines of the international agencies, understood said relationship more as an efficient instrument for limiting high abortion rates than as means to significantly reduce population growth.

Este artigo procura documentar os vínculos do Programa de Planejamento Familiar chileno com organizações como a Population Council, a Rockefeller Foundation, a International Planned Parenthood Federation e a ONU, entre 1960 e 1973. No marco das políticas populacionais impostas pela Guerra Fria, analisa-se a trajetória da comunidade médica chilena que, compartilhando os lineamentos ideológicos das agências internacionais, entendeu essa relação como um instrumento eficiente para a contenção das altas taxas de aborto, mais que para a diminuição significativa do crescimento populacional.