Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With this combination of economic and ideological argument ITT sought to stop Allende's election in 1970 and convince the U.S. government to help in the effort. But Allende was elected and ITT lost the Chilean Telephone Company properties to expropriation, as did other U.S. corporations. It seemed then that ITT had lost...
...secretary of state for Latin American affairs, that "we financed no candidates, no political parties before or after September 4 [1970]," and despite the fact that Nixon stated in October 1969, "We will deal with governments as they are," it is now clear that the U.S. government deeply influenced Chilean politics to the extent of buying votes in the Chilean congress and funding political candidates as early as 1964. While ITT officials were trying to give the CIA $1 million to stop Allende's election, the CIA was already spending its own millions buying votes and advertising. According to testimony...
...government ties to "select potential or actual leaders of countries to be visitors" in order to acquaint them with the U.S. In September 1973, just after the coup in Chile, the International Visitors Program invited Gustavo Palacios, director of Radio Mineria in Santiago, and Alfredo Concha, owner of the Chilean National Broadcasting System, to be guests of the U.S. government. The radio stations these two men controlled were the main anti-Allende radio propaganda as one of its methods of attacking Allende...
...Chilean radio directors visited Harvard during their stay in the U.S. in September 1973. Concha told a group of students that a Chilean coup was expected because "the Chilean people need authority, order, and strength, they need a strong hand to work." In the three years of the Allende government the U.S. International Visitors Program invited 70 Chileans to be official guests of the U.S. None of these was a member of the Allende government. According to George Porter, former acting director of information and reports in the State Department, International Visitors are selected according to a "country plan" which...
...State Department, Henry Kissinger, and the CIA. It is true that all of the proposals made by ITT in 1970 to topple Allende were eventually implemented by either the State Department, the Pentagon, the Treasury, or the CIA. It is also true that the CIA had been involved in Chilean politics since 1964 and possibly earlier. Chile's experience demonstrates that every tie between the U.S. and another country is a potential political lever that can be manipulated to suit U.S. purposes. Whether it is private U.S. business investments or something like the International Visitors' Program, it is a dependence...