Word: chile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Literature specialists emphasized that Fuentes is uniquely able to speak for all of Latin-America because, since he grew up in the family of a Mexican diplomat, he has lived in the United States, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, as well as his native Mexico...
After arriving by U.S. Marine Corps helicopter, the leaders of the West will be taken by horse-drawn carriages to the Georgian-style Governor's Palace. During their stay, the dignitaries will dine on such regional delicacies as batter-fried crayfish, Southern-fried chicken and Tex-Mex chile con carne, prepared under the direction of Chef Pierre Monet, formerly of Maxim's in Paris. At the President's insistence, the leaders will not even be burdened with the rigors of a formal agenda. As one White House aide put it, "The challenge is to keep things...
...worst outbreak of violence Chile had seen since the brutal overthrow of Marxist President Salvador Allende by the military regime of Augusto Pinochet 9½ years ago. It began last Wednesday as a peaceful Day of Protest over the country's desperate economic straits and quickly flared into widespread rioting. Three hundred police and militia fought about 1,500 protesters for control of downtown Santiago. By Thursday authorities had finally restored order, but at a tragic price: two civilians had been killed, 150 protesters were injured and 600 arrested...
...first it seemed that restraint might prevail. But when 200 students tried to occupy the library at the University of Chile, in the eastern part of Santiago, 50 police attacked with tear gas, brutally clubbing the protesters for nearly two hours. Then truncheon-wielding guards charged into an overflow crowd of dissident lawyers and students gathered to support the workers; about 15 were injured...
This week Chile's largest union, the 27,000-member National Conference of Copper Workers, will mark its discontent with an illegal 24-hour national strike. With unprecedented boldness, the union denounced the government's "weapons of fear and repression." Said President Rodolfo Seguel: "We are heading toward a dangerous point where the Chilean worker will not see any worse alternative to his present situation." Even the general's supporters fear that he has no answer. Says a former minister: "The country is in greater danger than when the Marxists were in power...