Word: chiari
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panamanian leaders standing so inflexibly against the U.S. are not the usual run of Latin American leftists and rabid ultranationalists. President Roberto F. Chiari, his most influential ministers and all major candidates in the May 10 presidential elections are members of a deeply entrenched elite that has ruled Panama since it proclaimed independence from Colombia in 1903. They are wealthy, well educated, antiCommunist, vigorously competing among themselves for power-and finding the widely resented canal treaty an ideal target to call attention away from their own position...
President Chiari himself...
Panama's richest men; he donates his $22,000-a-year presidential salary to the Panamanian Red Cross. His major source of wealth is the family's dairy farm and sugar plantations. Chiari's Blue Star dairy supplies most of Panama's milk, and the sugar plantations give him. a near monopoly on that commodity. (Price of sugar in Panama: 110 per lb., v. 60 in the Canal Zone.) Chiari's father was one of the leaders in Panama's fight for independence from Colombia, soon after built up a fortune in cattle...
With the May 10 presidential elections in Panama drawing ever closer, the canal is the campaign's No. 1 issue. While President Roberto F. Chiari is constitutionally prohibited from running again, he does not dare take a soft line for fear of lessening his party's chances. Ambassador Moreno is an opposition candidate himself-and his fire-breathing OAS speech drew loud cheers back home that could not be ignored by the six other candidates. As one irate Latin American diplomat put it in Washington last week: "The Panamanians are running their campaign in the halls...
President Chiari has staked his cabinet, his party's chances in this spring's elections, and perhaps his own life on extracting from the United States a commitment to re-negotiate the resented treaty. School children scuffling scuffling a flagpole do not cause violent riots, suspension of diplomatic relations, and risks of political suicide. The current dispute has been festering almost from the time that this country prodded inhabitants of the Isthmus into breaking away from Colombia and then presented the weak, young government with a treaty exchanging American protection and money for a canal zone in which America could...