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Five years ago, Chile's Eduardo Frei and his Christian Democratic Party capitalized on widespread fear of a Communist election victory to capture the presidency and, in the process, polled the biggest vote ever garnered by a Chilean political party. In two subsequent elections, however, the party's appeal has skidded sharply from the 55% of the vote it drew in 1964. Last week, in the last congressional elections before the 1970 presidential campaign, the Christian Democrats slipped even farther, polling less than a third of the vote. Surprisingly, the biggest beneficiary was not Chile's active...
...nine most seriously stricken provinces, rivers are mere trickles, reservoirs are empty or almost so, and pastureland lies parched. Unfortunately, these are Chile's most populous and most productive areas: they normally provide 52% of the country's wheat and 88% of its beans-both basic Chilean foods...
...rice. In Argentina's Patagonia region, woolmen estimate that the drought has taken the lives of at least 200,000 sheep. But Chile's plight is by far the worst of the nations in the area. If the drought there does not end soon, in fact, the Chilean weather bureau warns that the Atacama Desert, one of the world's driest, may begin advancing into the country's crop-rich central zone...
...signs of a desire to run the country themselves. In Chile, far-leftists, who made a strong showing in the presidential election last time, incite fears of a coup. They may do even better in the 1970 presidential balloting. As a result, there are rumors that the Chilean military is receiving advice from brother officers in neighboring countries to seize on the Communist threat as an excuse to take power. Such reports may be groundless, but they reflect the concern in South America that democratic governments, whatever their shortcomings, are more threatened today by their protectors than by their enemies...
Literacy Through Penance. A Marxist revolution can hardly represent the Christian ideal. Just as obviously, inertia is no answer to Catholicism's chal lenges today. A sensible middle way would see the church lending its weight to nonviolent reform-as Chilean Theo logian Hernan Larrain puts it, "Christianizing the inevitable revolution." In a few areas, Catholicism has had the time and talent to do so. In Venezuela, for example, the clergy has helped cut illiteracy from 50% to 12% in the past decade. One shrewd but practical way of accomplishing this was to require penitents to teach illiterates...