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President Pedro Agnirre Cerda is popularly known as Don Tinto because of the excellent red wine of the vineyards that made him rich. Rich President Aguirre's Popular Front Government reduced the price of bread from 2.20 pesos (11?) to 1.70 (9?) and the price of some meats by 40%, made available to workers who had never tasted milk 12,000 litres a day at 80 centavos a litre, returned from Government-owned pawnshops some 9,000,000 pesos worth of hocked tools and clothing. "Don Tinto," says the poor man of Chile, "es un muy buen hombre" (TIME...
Last week the poor man of Chile, his affection for Pedro Aguirre Cerda even stronger than it was two years ago, mourned his "muy buen hombre." For two days the body of Pedro Aguirre Cerda lay in state in the Hall of Honor of Santiago's Congress Building. From all over Chile special trains disgorged mourners for the President. More than 200,000 crossed themselves as they filed sadly past the remains of the wealthy lawyer and vintner who, as the Americas' first and only Popular Front President, had been the champion of Chile's swarming poor...
Through a portal inscribed "Wide is the gate-Wayfarer advance!" the funeral procession entered the cemetery. From the nearby hill thousands watched the full military burial ceremonies at the Aguirre family vault. As the body of Pedro Aguirre Cerda was laid to rest, guns boomed from the hills and Santiago's church bells joined in tolling concert. The President had long since pronounced his own epitaph: "I was born in the country and I have ever been faithful to my first love, the land...
...full text of the article: "For weeks the head of America's only Popular Front Government, Chile's President Pedro ('Don Tinto') Aguirre Cerda, has been on an uneasy seat in Santiago's grey, pillared Moneda Palace. Struggling for power have been members of the President's own Radical Party, Communists, Rightists, Germanophile Army officers...
Died. Pedro Aguirre Cerda, 62, President of Chile; of bronchial and lung congestion; in Santiago...