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Ambassador in the Chorus. The man behind the image is Chilean Ambassador Sergio Gutierrez Olivos, 43, an affable, energetic lawyer who began his ambassadorial career only four years ago, with an assignment in Argentina. "This is an effort," says Gutierrez, "to share the true, honest image of Chile-not only the cultural peaks, but also those who are coming up, the contemporary and the future. The image of Latin America is diffused in the U.S., and we wish to clarify...
...Statistical studies," he said, "tell us that one-tenth of the Chilean population receives almost half of the national income. This bad distribution of Chile's riches is paid for in malnutrition of the people." Practicing what Silva Henriquez preached about agrarian reform, the Roman Catholic Church in Chile undertook its own land-distribution program, parceling out 13,200 of its own acres in the Andean foothills, and providing financial and technical help to the new proprietors. Cardinal Silva Henriquez has also been the enthusiastic sponsor of Father Pedro Castex, a lively priest in a beret, who lives...
...Germany before the war had this policy with young Chilean and Argentine Army officers. Parties, friendship, schneider and pats in the back created a strong pro-German feeling...
From the parched northern deserts south to the icy latitudes bordering Antarctica, some 2,000,000 Chileans, including 600,000 new voters, went to the polls last week. The voters were merely choosing municipal officials. But the elections were widely regarded as a barometer for the presidential campaign next year. Out of the ballot boxes emerged a major new power in Chilean politics: the Christian Democrats, a left-of-center but anti-Communist party that rolled up 22.8% of the vote and thus became the biggest single political group in the country...
...United States toward Cuba. "The Eisenhower administration never made any distinction in practice between a radical nationalist revolution and a Communist revolution. The Communist Party does not run Cuba--Castro does. In the long run, this may be a very important distinction, and not only in Cuba. The Chilean Com- munists, for example, are Chileans first and Communists second...