Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chile. Chilean truck owners and the United States's own International Brotherhood of Teamsters seem to have much in common. While the Teamsters attempt to eradicate the struggling United Farm Workers in California, their compatriots in Chile are attempting to reverse the course of Chile's socialist revolution...
...Chilean transport owners have kept their trucks in their garages for almost three weeks now, avowedly striking to topple the socialist coalition of Salvador Allende. The owners, fearful that their precious private property would be expropriated sometime soon, have resorted to clandestine sabotage, adding to the problems caused by the strike itself--shortages of gasoline, food and medical supplies...
...streets in Chile's capital, Santiago, to demonstrate their support for their Allende government, but their voices are never heard in the United States. Yet let a handful of middle class women bang some cooking pots and wail about prices, and cries of anguish about the subversion of Chilean liberties emanate from sensible American observers...
Allende, in U.S. news dispatches, is always "Marxist President Allende." Nothing the matter with that, but why not call the criminal in the White House "Capitalist President Nixon." At any rate, the right is moving to crush the Chilean people with extra-legal assassinations, political power plays and the like, and all the good American liberals can do is read their newspapers and tremble about civil liberties...
Hardly. The rich and the right just want their own cut of the take. In neighboring Chile, for example, all parties voted for companero President Allende's expropriation of the American copper interests-the right, because it hopes to control the mines itself; the left, because it wants the Chilean people to guide production and distribution...