Word: chile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME'S People section my photo was published with "a mysterious Chilean admirer" who, says the article, was accompanying me from Chile to Montevideo and was living with me in the same hotel. Unfortunately, I myself can classify this article as inaccurate...
...caporegimes in charge of certain geographic areas. Anyone foolish enough to interfere with Corleone's operations--gambling, bootlegging, extortion, loan-sharking and racketeering--would be either warmed or simply rubbed out by these gangsters. In real life, Third World dictatorships--such as those of Haiti, the Philippines and Chile--act as caporegimes--protectors of the interests of United States government...
...final destination on this mini-tour of the political underworld is fittingly, Washington D.C., where the military government of Chile murdered one of its exiled opponents with a car bomb in 1976. Chile's democratically elected government was brutally overthrown in 1973, when the U.S. engineered a coup that put General Augusto Pinochet in power...
...attack. When Letelier and an assistant. Ronni Moffit, were blown up, the U.S. discovered that three senior Chilean intelligence officers were probably connected to the killings. Despite repeated requests, the men (who have been indicted by American courts) haven't been extradited. President Carter imposed mild trade sanctions on Chile for not returning the suspected murderers: Reagan ended even that minor form of protest...
...protecting "U.S. interests." Opponents of these madmen who seek refuge in the U.S. seem unfortunately to forget that it was American troops who put the tyrants in power and that it is American business that benefits from the cheap labor and natural resources in Haiti, the Philippines and Chile. Above all, they seem to forget that certain countries can and do kill with impunity, even within the borders of the United States, so long as overall "U.S. interests are safeguarded...