Word: chiari
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Panama's relations with the U.S. - though certainly improved from last January - are still delicate. Robles himself lacks a firm power base. He has no personal following, very little money. The middle-class candidate of a fragile coalition, he was primarily sponsored by outgoing President Roberto Chiari, who was widely criticized for his mishandling of the January riots. Robles, for all his disadvantages, is known as an energetic politician, with a good record as Chiari's Minister of Government and Justice since 1960. When it comes to reforms, he seems to mean what he says...
...Panama, well-intentioned Presidents seem always destined either for assassination, like General José Antonio Remón (1952-55) or simply to be broken, like Chiari. Robles' ambitious ideas are bound to annoy the country's far right, and his evident desire to get along with the U.S. is sure to enrage the ultranationalists and far leftists who still talk revolution. "I give us 18 months to get things rolling," says a Robles Cabinet minister. "If we have not car ried out our pledges by that time, the government will fall...
...committee found that the flag-raising march on Balboa High School by some 200 Panamanian students "appears to have been very carefully prepared and not a spontaneous movement," that Panama's President Roberto F. Chiari may well have known about it in advance and that, in any event, the Panamanian government did absolutely nothing to stop the subsequent rioting. For four days, from Jan. 9 to 13, said the committee, Panama's peace-keeping National Guard was curiously disarmed and "purposely kept away" from the trouble spots. Said the committee: "There was no evidence before us that...
Cattle & the Canal. The son of a judge, Robles displays none of the big money usually associated with political success in Panama. Though his kinsman Chiari is one of the country's richest men, Robles himself lives with his schoolteacher wife and three children in a mortgaged, three-bedroom house in Panama City. He held a string of government jobs before Chiari appointed him Minister of Government and Justice in 1960. Panamanians quickly found him to be an honest, extremely determined administrator. When he noticed that stray cattle were causing a number of serious auto accidents and that nobody...
...stump during the campaign, Robles was no match for Arias and his fiery oratory. But he strongly supported the Chiari government's demands for revision of the canal treaty with the U.S. and pledged to "rescue for our country the commerce of the Canal Zone, which should have been rightfully ours since 1903." In the slums and backlands, he promised to provide unemployment compensation and some moderate reforms in housing and schools. Repeatedly, he professed independence of the country's powerful ruling elite: "I'm not an oligarch, and not responsible to them." That remains...