Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generals. The Nixon government cut off all but military aid to Chile and blocked the country's attempts to secure credit and thereby relieve its staggering debt: The U.S. added to the country's economic problems. At the same time, the U.S. continued to channel funds to the Chilean armed forces, strengthening a powerful and conservative sector of Chilean society. The warplanes that bombed President Allende's palace were made...
...railway worker killed in a fall from his train, Neruda lost the consulship accorded his early poems by declaring Chile opposed to facism in Spain without waiting for his government's instructions. In 1944, the nitrate miners of Antofagasta asked Neruda to run for the Chilean Senate, where he served for four years. In 1948, unwilling to refrain from criticizing an American-supported dictator, Neruda was forced to go underground. For several months miners and working people helped him evade the Secret Police, passing him from house to house. With him, Neruda carried the manuscript of Canto General...
Neruda is the second world-famous Chilean to die, along with hundreds or thousands of unknown heroines and heroes, since the generals seized power. The mourners who braved the generals' cameras and spies to sing the International at Neruda's funeral Tuesday mourned not only Neruda but also Chilean freedom, those assassinated by the generals, and Salvador Allende, the president who had fought for freedom and the people...
...dilemma cannot finally be resolved by the Chilean events. A stronger sense of internationalism by the world Left, particularly in the United States, would certainly have lessened Popular Unity's difficulties. Had U.S. aid, other than military assistance, continued to flow southward, for example, perhaps the Chilean crisis would not have become so intense...
...SOCIALIST, I sometimes question myself about this dilemma. Could I support the suspension of free speech and freedom of the press to aid a revolution waged for the extension of those and other rights? Could I imprison a Chilean truck-owner for endangering socialism--a socialism where there will be no prisons? Could I shoot a Portuguese soldier for a cause that seeks to outlaw war forever...