Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heitman's speech this afternoon is presumably a step in his continuing campaign to make people forget other injustices--notably the thousands of killings, the mass imprisonments, the political repression, the cut in Chilean workers' living standards, and the forcible suppression of Chile's nonviolent, constitutional revolution carried out by his bosses with American support. Students should join the picket line at the Harvard Club this afternoon and let him know that however successful his employers may be for the moment, his campaign isn't working...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Chile Edward Korry: "...the United States did not seek to pressure, subvert, influence a single member of the Chilean Congress at any time in the entire four years of my stay...
...poured $8 million to "destabilize" the Allende government and to bribe Chilean congressmen to vote against Allende...
...were making "a big mistake" in Chile. In a pained voice he said, "What I don't understand is how a country that loves democracy like the United States could try to use the CIA to stop democracy in Chile. Salvador Allende is the president of the Chilean people, we elected him. I respect the people of America, I love freedom just like they do. When you go back there you tell them the truth about Chile." I looked out the taxi window at the trees in the pale autumn sunshine. There was no doubt that winter would come soon...
...September 11, 1973, the Chilean military stages a coup. Allende is killed, the press is censored, civil rights are suspended, Congress is dissolved, thousands are executed, tens of thousands are imprisoned. A military dictatorship begins rule...