Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What caused the downfall of the Allende government? Needless to say, it was not all caused by American intervention. Sections of the Chilean upper and middle classes saw the Allende government and its proposed social and economic programs as a distinct threat to them...
...aroused the fear that if it was successful there might be a domino effect throughout the Latin American states. Also there was the direct involvement in Chile of such giant U.S. corporations as ITT and Anaconda, both of which have recently negotiated large financial settlements with the Chilean junta: $125 million to ITT, $253 million to Anaconda...
...know of the murder of President Allende, the beating to death of the great Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, the jailings, beatings and torture of former members and supporters of the Allende government...
...there is also a continuing brutal oppression of vast numbers of nameless and unknown workers and peasants, whose only crime was to try to improve their condition, to relieve their awful poverty, ignorance and want. This oppression extends to all who try to help the Chilean masses--doctors, nurses, health workers, intellectuals from many fields--all of whom now are made to feel the unrestrained violence of the military junta...
...feared, Spínola reportedly plotted over open telephone lines with ultra-rightists to overthrow the government. Moderate officers, who might conceivably have joined the rebellion, were frightened off by the involvement of members of the old regime and feared that a rightist uprising would end up in a Chilean-style massacre of leftists and plunge the country into civil...