Word: chileanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prodigious importance of this conquest appears from its three major effects: 1) Bolivia, third largest South American country, was cut off from all access to the sea; 2) Chile acquired the largest nitrate fields in the world, taxes from which now supply over half the revenues of the Chilean Treasury; and 3) Peru was deprived even of Tacna and Arica, without which strategic provinces she cannot hope to wrest back her ravished nitrate fields...
Naturally U. S. financiers approve the activist, acquisitive qualities of Chileans, and have dealt hugely and profitably with nearly all of Chile's able and kinetic dictators. The last of these,' Colonel Carlos Ibanez who is only incidentally President of Chile, has cleverly adopted the Anglo-Saxon technique of calling his opponents "Communists" and dealing with them as though they were desperadoes. For example the Dictator deported as "dangerous reds" (TIME, March 21, 1927) a venerable judge of the Chilean Supreme Court and several financiers who opposed his views...
Among the news referring to Chile, my country, there was a sympathetic reference to our 'protective tariff" for the benefit of Chilean smelting interests. Allow me to thank you for this, especially because I know that you are not fishing, but saying this because you broad-mindedly and openly mean...
...express my hopes that you will continue paying attention to South America and Chilean affairs which are growing more and more to be of a mutual interest for North and South America...
...Many a Chilean grimaced in irritation last week at the latest drastic measure of Dictator President Carlos Ibañez. He, peremptory, issued an order that all gambling establishments but one be closed immediately...