Word: chile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ARRIVED IN SANTIAGO, Chile with my father on Dec. 15, 1985, at 1:30 a.m. The first sight that greeted us as we emerged from the airport was a sign looming above that read, "Chile progresses in peace and order...
Thirteen years ago, Chile, under the leadership of President Salvador Allende, was one of the few Latin American countries with a democratic government. A generation of popular leadership had made significant progress in social and economic reform, putting in place the rudiments of a welfare state. As one prominent journalist told me, "We had a tradition of democracy that made men proud. The Moneda [Presidential Palace] was a public way, and the president walked down the street like you or me, and took off his hat to say 'Hello...
...military junta, led by General Augusto Pinochet and backed by the United States, overthrew the Allende regime. The coup toppled not only the nation's popular leader but also the nation's tradition of democracy. Chile progresses in peace and order...
...CAME TO CHILE with a test in mind: Jeane Kirkpatrick's famous authoritarian/totalitarian distinction. This Administration lends military and economic aid to the junta in Chile on the theory that authoritarian governments are "better" than totalitarian ones--that, right-wing rulers are less pervasively repressive than those of the left, more culturally tolerant, less ideological, more amenable to corporate interests, and more susceptible to change. Therefore, the argument continues, to prop up right-wing repressive governments not only protects American interests--in Chile, that means ITT--but also prevents the country from going Red, presumably foreclosing any future hope...
People told us one had to watch one's words in public, yet they were very free with us in voicing their opposition to the junta. Furthermore, the government has not developed an oppressive, Orwellian ideology, but preaches only anti-communism. "Chile progresses in peace and order" was the first and last slogan we were to see in the country. Chilean propaganda is not propagated in manifestos and youth groups but through anaesthetic state-controlled television and movie imports like Rambo...