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...undermine Allende's Popular Unity government and to influence the outcome of the Congressional elections held in 1973, when Allende increased his plurality to 44 per cent. Additional funds were funneled to anti-Allende newspapers and radio stations. In all, over $8 million was spent to subvert the Chilean government, and only the military coup a year ago prevented the expenditure of further alloted funds...
...against so-called repression but against Allende's substantive policies, which attempted to eradicate the social injustices prevalent in one of Latin America's wealthiest countries. In nationalizing industries owned by foreign companies, the Popular Unity government hoped to place profits from native resources in the hands of the Chilean people. Through its taxation policies the Allende government sought to redistribute wealth more evenly between rich and poor. By legalizing workers' factory takeovers, Allende moved to give laborers a greater say in the operation of their places of work. Through its land reform policy the Chilean government attempted to lift...
Recognizing that there are no islands might be enough, and worth the disillusionment, however. It might force the realization that special rules do not govern American behavior, that American soldiers are capable of war crimes, that if justice was applied equally, many American policies would be judged criminal. The Chilean democratic process might be as sacred as the Constitution. Water between lands might seem less definitive...
Another prominent prisoner was ex-Senator Erich Schnake, 44, former chief of communications in Allende's Socialist Party, who was sentenced to 20 years. According to the court, Schnake, on Sept. 11-the day of the coup-broadcast an appeal to the Chilean people for support of the Allende government...
...York it won acclaim from most critics, but it was also blasted as out-and-out propaganda. Although Costa's latest effort clearly has its polemical dimensions, the film's picture of the effects of American involvement in Latin American affairs proved pretty true to the mark when the Chilean military overthrew the government of Salvador Allende just a few months after the movie's American premier. Costa's portrayal of the Tupamaros, Uruguay's urban guerilla group, is far from simple and far from idyllic. The movie, despite the charges of propaganda, is relatively hardnosed and intelligent compared...