Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second list named Luis Guajardo as one of 59 exiled Chilean guerrillas who had clashed in a deadly shoot-out with Argentine police in the remote province of Salta. It appeared in Brazil in another justly obscure publication, a "newspaper" called O Dia. So far, no one has been able to locate the O Dia offices, and the Brazilian Press Association says it has never heard of the paper. Neither has anyone been able to confirm the spectacular shoot-out in Salta involving 59 supposed terrorists. Despite the questionable validity of both reports, they have been widely publicized in Chile...
Anyway, it goes on and on in like manner, to the point that one can only conclude the Millus should be locked up or sold to the Chilean government as a consultant on South Korean methods of crowd control. Instead, Millus is signed as screenwriter for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypee New, a big blockbusting statement on Vietnam, with massacres, heroin addiction, the whole thing. What could be the only fictional film about the indochina War (we exclude The Green Berels, which was so outrageous that French students would systematically take to the streets whenever it opened in a given...
...release him in November. 1974. Former Minister of Mines for the Allende government. Bitar is now a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Development, where he is doing research on the political economy of his native country. He says that Amnesty has placed "much pressure" on the Chilean junta to curtail its repressive tactics. A recent Amnesty report on political imprisonment in Chile describes the situation in dry, detached language...
Consequently, political prisoners have stemmed from every sector of the Chilean population. Allende's cabinet ministers are in prison. At least 40 lawyers have been detained, many for having exercised their professional duties. Approximately 100 medical doctors were arrested (the majority of them now free), almost invariably accused of participation in "clandestine hospitals" which would have treated pro-Allende casualties in the event of a Civil War. Journalists who worked in pro-Allende newspapers, magazines, radio or television stations have been imprisoned, killed or forced to seek asylum. A similar fate has met all leaders of the now disbanded Central...
Like Litvinov. Bitar notes that it is impossible to gauge the individual role of elements such as Amnesty, universities, and the church in gaining his release, saying that it was the combined pressures of world opinion that eventually won him his freedom. Many political prisoners are still languishing in Chilean jails. With a glint of anger in his eyes. Bitar remarks that the process of brutality has now been institutionalized in Chile, thereby producing "a sort of Gestapo autonomous from the central government." He describes the Chilean leadership as having "the most reactionary mentality in Latin America today," and concludes...