Word: chileanizing
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...senior analyst at the National Security Archives showed newly-declassified documents that reveal the extent of U.S. involvement in the Chilean coup in 1973 in a presentation last night...
Kornbluh said it is now possible to read transcripts of cabinet meetings “where regime change was plotted” during the Chilean crisis that show the U.S. was aiming to remove democratically-elected president Salvador Allende Gossens. At the time, the U.S. actively denied any involvement in Pinochet’s rise to power...
...speech, Kornbluh specifically mentioned numerous executions and terrorist acts committed by Pinochet, including a car bombing in Washington D.C. that killed a Chilean diplomat...
...spent some time recently in Chile. The rich and the powerful there are European descendants, of course—they were Spanish and German and now Chilean. It’s interesting to me that when you want to really insult someone in Chile, you call them a “Peruano,” or resident of Peru. The insult’s sting comes not just from base nationalism, but a level of racism as well. The Peruvians in Chile are not the rich or the powerful or the white, but the indigenous women who come to serve...
...Chilean man living in the countryside once sought to explain the differences between Chilean and Peruvian people to me. He searched for some way to bottle up their grand conflict, to explain why Peru was just different than Chile. (Peru, like Bolivia, has a much larger percentage of indigenous population than Chile.) Finally, he hit upon his key point...