Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Felipe Herrera, 49, a Chilean economist, head of the Inter-American Development Bank for eleven years, now a professor at the University of Chile. Because Chile's leftist government endorsed Herrera, the U.S. took the unusual step of publicly stating that he was unacceptable...
...state overnight. With those elements, Castro certainly scored some points; one Chuquicamata copper miner enthusiastically told newsmen last week that "Fidel made us see the importance of our producing more. Now, we are all Fidelistas." But the visit also cost Allende some of his remaining good will among the Chilean political middle, which does not hold the Cuban dictator in particular esteem...
...Radicals that brought Chile's President Salvador Allende Gossens to office last year. But while the Broad Front's platform calls for agrarian reforms, nationalization of private banks and foreign trade, and the bolstering of state industry, it covers a much broader political spectrum than the Chilean alliance. Nor is Seregni, a disaffected Colorado, a Marxist like Allende...
There were occasional flashes of the familiar Fidel. Three hundred Cubans had been brought in to augment the Chilean security setup, so one newsman jestingly asked Castro if he was wearing a bulletproof vest, too. "Oye, it is as hot here as it is in Havana," he shot back. "I don't even wear an undershirt." But Castro plainly failed to arouse much excitement. When he arrived, a crowd of some 750,000 Chileans lined the streets of Santiago, chanting "Fidel, Fidel, give those Yankees hell!" Bigger and more enthusiastic crowds had turned out for Charles de Gaulle...
...moment, however, the main effect of Castro's trip has been to accentuate the political polarization in the region. Cuba is still considered a menace by many Latin American governments, notably Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Guatemala. They take his Chilean junket as the signal for a general broadening of a Communist wedge in Latin America...