Word: chileanizing
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When Latin American countries attempt to control the extent of international acquisition, excess profits, monopoly practices, draining of natural resources, and wage levels, they invariably face opposition by U.S. business. Allende, for example, said that he did not intend to discourage all American investment, but only to gain Chilean possession of the country's most crucial businesses and establish firm controls over business practices and profits. U.S. business, through the U.S. government, pressured for political conditions favorable to its interests in Guatemala in 1954, Brazil in 1964, the Dominican Republic in 1965, and recently, in Chile...
...enacting a socialist program, Salvador Allende provoked opposition from two sides--one, the internal Chilean class struggle and the other, the U.S. economic blockade...
...mess began during the military overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens. During the coup, a Cuban ship left Valparaiso so quickly that its crew had no time to put ashore four Chilean cranes that were being used to unload sugar. The Cuban captain's haste seemed justified; his vessel was bombed and strafed before escaping to sea. Another Cuban ship laden with sugar turned back to Havana before it made port in Chile. In each instance, Chile's new junta cried foul. It contended that Cuba had to deliver 18,000 metric tons of sugar because...
Cynical Marriage. Chilean lawyers filed papers in the U.S. District Court for the Canal Zone seeking attachment of the ships as they sailed through the canal. Judge Guthrie Crowe granted the order, but authorities just missed nabbing the two sugar-bearing ships. So the attachment was simply applied to the Imias, the next Cuban ship that happened along. Meanwhile, in the wake of the coup, a Soviet captain had also decided not to deliver his cargo of chemicals to Chile, and a similar legal action trapped his ship...
...April Coalition was clearly not the October Revolution, neither was it run-of-the-mill American politics. For one thing, city council meetings often resembled meetings of Chilean campamentos under the Popular Unity government more than the obscure meetings of politicos that pass for council meetings in many American cities...