In
Chile, gremialismo was the main doctrine of the
liberal-conservative movement that emerged in the latter half of the 1960s, leading the opposition to the
University Reform at the
Catholic University of Chile. As such, it stood against both the left and the center movements. Gremialismo was influenced by
Francoist-corporatism, even the economic views of it got rejected, they favored it's cultural views. Besides cultural similarities to
integralism or even
Falangism, gremialismo rejects
corporatism and other
left economic systems and supports
capitalism There has been ongoing debate over whether gremialismo thought was influenced by
Juan Vázquez de Mella as well (Even if Mella wasn't a capitalist). The gremialist Javier Leturia wrote about the origins of the movement: :We [the gremialistas] were orderly, we were those that were not
hippie, those that were not left-wing, those that were not
potheads. I would say that the people were participative. That is why former
school union leaders and people from school unions, the
scouts, and religious movements were picked up. We openly supported the
coup. We published a manifesto in the newspaper that read: "Towards a new institutionality through the renounce of Allende." [...] What we said was that the crisis was insurmountable and that the only solution was to have the armed forces take charge. We drafted that manifesto as university students, and it was signed by student unions from the
Catholic universities of Santiago and Valparaíso, which were headed by gremialists. I would say that from the moment Allende was elected, many began to support a coup. I mean that we were not going to accept for this country to fall into communism. == Role in military dictatorship youth policy ==