Word: chileanizing
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...knew of the impending Chilean coup before it happened but did nothing [Oct. 1]. I marvel that we spent tens of billions to fight for "democracy" in Viet Nam, but wouldn't spend 10? for a warning phone call to the democratically elected President of Chile...
...ironic that the international left is complaining about Allende's overthrow when all the Chilean army did was accept the Mao doctrine that "power comes from the barrel of a gun." Looks like the left can dish it out, but can't take...
This sort of opposition was naturally to be expected, but resistance arose from other, somewhat unexpected, quarters. A great many of Chile's middle-class professionals joined in the protest against the Popular Unity government. In President Allende's last days, the Chilean Medical Association endorsed the middle-class work stoppage which was crippling his government. One wonders what Allende, himself a doctor, thought as his fellow doctors helped strangle socialism in Chile...
...accomplished. This belief, that educated people need not and should not abandon those upon whose bent and broken lives their successes are built, appears even stronger in retrospect, after Allende's tragic death. He remained loyal to his convictions until the end. One only wishes his fellow Chilean doctors had shared his sense of compassion and understanding...
...were 400 young men in the university in the group Forward. Three hundred ninety-five voted for my expulsion; of those 400 of us, only two remain now in the social struggle. Some have money in Chilean banks, others have money abroad; some have big rural estates--we expropriate them--some have bank stock, we also nationalize them; and the same thing happens to those who control industrial monopolies. But the fact is that only two of us remain on the Left. And I was expelled for being a reactionary; but today the workers in my country call...