Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EARLY Saturday morning, opponents of the Chilean military coup set off a bomb in International Telephone and Telegraph's New York City office. The "Weather Underground," an offspring of the old Weatherman group, claimed responsibility for the action. No one was hurt by the explosion, in which several ITT offices and facilities were damaged...
...Mexico, former Chilean Ambassador Hugo Vigorena Ramírez, a career diplomat who resigned his post in Mexico City after the coup, claimed to have seen documents outlining what he called the "CIA's war against Allende." The alleged plan, code-named Centaur, was said to involve economic and psychological subversion of the Allende government, including such dirty tricks as introducing counterfeit money and upsetting the rhythm of crops. "The CIA plan prepared for the coup," insisted Vigorena. "It was a systematic campaign of torpedoing the government...
...Pressure from Washington on such institutions as the World Bank seriously aggravated Chile's fiscal crises. As Latin American Experts James F. Petras and Robert LaPorte Jr. noted in Foreign Policy magazine, "Dominican style 'gunboat diplomacy' has been replaced by 'credit diplomacy.' " But the Chilean economy was already in a sorry state as a result of the drop in the world price of copper and inefficient fiscal management...
...Nothing would have served our interests better than if [Allende] had completed his term in office and then been repudiated by the Chilean people in constitutional elections...
...junta hardly seems hospitable to the press, foreign or domestic. Even after censorship was lifted, three journalists, Marlise Simons from the Washington Post, Georges Dupoy from Le Figaro and Pierre Kalfon of Le Monde, were arrested for stories they had written. They were later released. And, of the nine Chilean papers published before the coup, only three were permitted to appear last week...