Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chileans have a keen pragmatism, as shown by your story. A while back, a conservative Chilean cousin of mine was visiting in the U.S. His name: Guevara. When I asked him if we were related to "Che," he smiled slyly and quipped, "Aquí no; en Cuba...
...scene in Santiago was distressingly similar to that in other besieged cities. In the wake of the shooting of the army commander, the Chilean capital was gripped by the tightest security ever imposed in the country's history. Streets were cordoned off and police helicopters hovered overhead. In this atmosphere of tension and anxiety, the Chilean Congress last week confirmed the victory of Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens as the world's first freely elected Marxist President...
MORE than a few Latin Americans harbor the suspicion that Salvador Allende's presidency may be unexpectedly brief. A Mexican television worker described one popularly held belief last week: "If Allende chooses to be a thoroughgoing Socialist, the Chilean army will decide, with a big wink from the U.S., that its sacred duty is to oust the man." There is no doubt that Washington is deeply distressed by the prospect of a Communist Chile. Ranking Administration advisers predict that a Communist country on the South American mainland would have far more influence throughout the hemisphere than Castro...
...loans, would scarcely be missed. Tighten the economic screws? Chile sells little of its copper in the U.S.: 90% of it goes to Japan and Western Europe. In the end, says Sol Linowitz, former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, "the U.S. role in this entirely Chilean affair is to keep hands off-entirely." After all, Linowitz notes, "Chile is in this hemisphere, and we should be no more disturbed about Allende in Chile than about the military dictatorships of Argentina and Brazil. What kind of a double standard do we have...
...rugged Andean frontier. The Argentines have no plans to charge into Chile, but they are keeping in close touch with Peru's generals in an effort to make ready for anything. One military man in Buenos Aires predicts that clashes will break out on the Argentine-Chilean border within 15 months. A former Argentine foreign minister says that it is "absurd" to think that Allende will not attempt to "stir up subversion and revolution outside Chile." The near-panic in the Argentine junta is such that the generals are preparing a special amnesty which would allow Dictator Juan...