Word: chileanizing
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...group of Chilean leftists recently chose an improbable phrase to inform the rest of the world that they intend to remain in Chile and fight the military dictatorship instead of seeking asylum abroad. The Miristas, a Chilean New Left of students who left the universities to work with landless peasants and urban workers, said only that they would remain in Chile "to fulfill our obligations." They consciously chose a future of furtive meetings and constant fear which for some of them will surely culminate in electric-shock tortures and machine-gun executions...
...silenced once more, the only news stories you can find tell about new waves of repression, coupled with new, albeit startlingly familiar boasts by the generals who rule Chile that the country is saved because the ships now run on time. But even if American newspapers had covered Chilean politics impartially from the beginning, it wouldn't be enough to understand what they were about, because life goes deeper than politics. And great historic revolutions, if they're really revolutions and not just epicycles, cut deeper than politics too, more widely and more piercingly...
Luckily, a few English-speaking commentators treat social change with understanding--David Kunzle, a British art historian who spoke and showed slides of Chilean art at Carpenter Center last week, was the most recent one in these parts--and it's possible to get from them at least a less distorted picture of some of the aspects of the Chilean revolution with which American newspapers never dealt...
...example, there were the Ramona Para brigades. Ramona Para was a Chilean worker killed during an earlier period of social unrest, and the brigades were groups of Communists, mostly workers, who went around painting murals in the cheapest paint they could buy because that way it cost them less and because they didn't care if the murals faded; the next day the murals would already be a day old and new ones could always be painted anyway. The five other parties in Allende's Popular Unity coalition had brigades of their own to paint murals, but the Communists...
...guns is not a complete film. For example, it does not sufficiently explore the relation of UD to the Christian Democrats or disagreements with UP. What it does do, vividly, is establish a perspective on the blather which North Americans have heard these last three years about Allende, the Chilean working class, and the prospects for socialism. It relates Chile's experience to the experience of U.S. workers and is particularly sensitive to problems of racism, sexism, and the exploitation of children. What shines through the horror, the anger and frustration is the Chilean people's determination to resurrect...