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...March issue of Harper's Garcia published an account of how the Chilean armed forces suppressed the Chilean government in the coup of September, 1973. As he traces the contacts between Chilean military officers and the Pentagon, it seems that Garcia is portraying the military men of his fiction all over again. These are the same men who shot three thousand people in Macondo's central square and carted them off in a freight train, and the next morning denied that the massacre had ever occurred. The politics of One Hundred Years of Solitude seem mythic, distanced from contemporary issues...
...meeting on Saturday, the foreign ministers of Argentina and Peru called for an end to the 12-year-old boycott. The Chilean foreign minister, Rear Admiral Ismael Diuz, asked that the boycott be maintained. He argued that "Castroism constitutes a danger for peace and security of the continent...
...returned with 339 deletions indicated. Some of the excisions were baffling or perhaps simply inexpertly done. Chapter 2, for example, begins with a deleted remark by Henry Kissinger. Yet another passage makes clear that he was discussing a CIA project to prevent the 1970 election of Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens...
...seven months since a coup by the Chilean armed forces overthrew the Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens, a four-man military junta headed by Army General Augusta Pinochet Ugarte has ruthlessly eliminated leftists (real and suspect), suspended all political activity, and reversed many of the socialistic moves undertaken during Allende's presidency. But the junta is also beginning to find many of Chile's problems difficult and intractable. TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch reports...
Because of this request from the Swedish government, Edelstam declined to comment on the alleged involvement of the U.S. government either in the coup which brought the junta to power, or in the present situation of Chilean government...