Word: chileanizing
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...quite a while before the Chilean people get to choose a constitution for themselves. All the evidence last week pointed to a grim fact: civilian-led democratic government in Chile has no priority at all for the junta. The earliest estimate for national elections was in three to five years, and even that was a guess. By the time the polls reopen, Chileans may be too deep into dictatorship to remember the old days of democracy that ended so suddenly two weeks ago in blood and smoke...
...office overlooking the gutted Moneda Palace. Pinochet was vague about the junta's timetable for a restoration of civilian government. "We will keep the status quo for a certain time, and then grant more liberty. But we don't want politics. The only party now is the Chilean party, and its members are all Chileans...
...long and mostly inglorious history of meddling in the internal affairs of Latin American nations. Thus it came as no surprise to Washington that the Chilean junta's overthrow of President Salvador Allende sparked a flurry of angry charges that either the CIA or the White House had somehow engineered the coup. At a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council called by Cuba to protest attacks by Chilean troops on its embassy in Santiago during the coup, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcón y Quesada charged: "The trail of blood spilled in Chile leads directly...
...Mexico, former Chilean Ambassador Hugo Vigorena Ramírez, a career diplomat who resigned his post in Mexico City after the coup, claimed to have seen documents outlining what he called the "CIA's war against Allende." The alleged plan, code-named Centaur, was said to involve economic and psychological subversion of the Allende government, including such dirty tricks as introducing counterfeit money and upsetting the rhythm of crops. "The CIA plan prepared for the coup," insisted Vigorena. "It was a systematic campaign of torpedoing the government...
...Pressure from Washington on such institutions as the World Bank seriously aggravated Chile's fiscal crises. As Latin American Experts James F. Petras and Robert LaPorte Jr. noted in Foreign Policy magazine, "Dominican style 'gunboat diplomacy' has been replaced by 'credit diplomacy.' " But the Chilean economy was already in a sorry state as a result of the drop in the world price of copper and inefficient fiscal management...