Word: chileanizing
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...generals. The Nixon government cut off all but military aid to Chile and blocked the country's attempts to secure credit and thereby relieve its staggering debt: The U.S. added to the country's economic problems. At the same time, the U.S. continued to channel funds to the Chilean armed forces, strengthening a powerful and conservative sector of Chilean society. The warplanes that bombed President Allende's palace were made...
...Chilean military dictatorship is certainly repressive. It overthrew a legally elected president, subverted the Chilean constitution, and is at present murdering its opponents after outlawing their political parties. One would have difficulty in finding a government better suited for diplomatic ostracism from the international community...
...United States government insists on recognizing the regime, we at least want it to press the Chilean military into making some sort of a deal for the freedom of political prisoners." Womack said...
...railway worker killed in a fall from his train, Neruda lost the consulship accorded his early poems by declaring Chile opposed to facism in Spain without waiting for his government's instructions. In 1944, the nitrate miners of Antofagasta asked Neruda to run for the Chilean Senate, where he served for four years. In 1948, unwilling to refrain from criticizing an American-supported dictator, Neruda was forced to go underground. For several months miners and working people helped him evade the Secret Police, passing him from house to house. With him, Neruda carried the manuscript of Canto General...
Neruda is the second world-famous Chilean to die, along with hundreds or thousands of unknown heroines and heroes, since the generals seized power. The mourners who braved the generals' cameras and spies to sing the International at Neruda's funeral Tuesday mourned not only Neruda but also Chilean freedom, those assassinated by the generals, and Salvador Allende, the president who had fought for freedom and the people...