Word: chileanizing
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...political graffiti, the demonstrations, the gray-brown tones of city and people, the tension and resignation underlined the realities of Chilean life in March 1972. Allende's Popular Unity Party had just gained more seats in the congressional elections, against the predictions of domestic and international political seers. The "Chilean road to socialism" was still being paved, but no one really knew where it would lead. Inflation was climbing above 200 percent. The black market thrived like a parasite on the rationed existence of the people. International credit was all but nonexistent. Copper prices had fallen on the world market...
Metal traders were skeptical that CIPEC could drive up prices. They questioned the effectiveness of a cutback in shipments without a reduction in production. Almost in response, the Chilean government announced that it would close down the Exotica Mine for six months; the mine, one of Chile's largest, last year produced about 32,000 tons, or only 4% of Chile's copper exports. That should certainly not be enough to kick up prices-unless more member countries also close their mines...
Barely one week after the toppling of Salvador Allende's regime last year, Chilean authorities set about arresting drug smugglers. During the Allende years, according to Interpol, Chile had played host to the world's largest cocaine-trafficking operation, and the U.S., which was at the receiving end of the line, was not at all happy. The new junta and American narcs quickly worked out a cozy arrangement. Five federal drug agents flew to Chile to finger smugglers. Chilean police arrested and eventually expelled the suspects on a nonstop flight to the U.S.-often after days of torture...
Brazil, which is ideologically sympathetic to the Chilean and Uruguayan military-backed governments, nevertheless sees that there is no point in trying to block Cuba without U.S. help. Moreover, two of Castro's outspoken advocates in the OAS are looking more and more formidable. They are Mexico, with newly discovered oil reserves, and petroleum-rich Venezuela, which introduced the 1964 quarantine proposal but is now backing the movement...
...administration had been receiving rumors of unrest in the Chilean military for more than one year," Gerald L. Warren, White House spokesman, told reporters that week. "Aside from these rumors, the President had no advance knowledge of any specific plan for a coup...