Word: chileans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seemingly out of place every morning when the junior class lines up at formation is a slightly-built, always smiling officer clad in a distinctive, powder blue uniform. Having heard scuttlebutt going around that he was from (a) the Bolivian Coast Guard, (b) the Chilean Army, and (c) the Nicaraguan Merchant Marine, we sought him out the other evening, just by way of accurately determining his identity. We found out that he is Captain Manual Higueras of the Peruvian Air Force...
...been recognized only by Argentina. The Inter-American Committee for Political Defense, meeting in Montevideo, had agreed that its member nations should consult before taking action; they were still consulting last week. Argentina's totalitarian Government, ignored by the Committee and widely suspected of instigating the revolt (a Chilean Communist paper, El Siglo, said that Dictator-Colonel Juan Domingo Péron had boasted of doing so), had hesitated 14 days...
Free, liberal Chile last week felt a bone-chilling wind blow down from the Andes. The Government announced that it had discovered a subversive plot involving "Latin American neighbors." Not much more was told. No names. No arrests as yet. But every Chilean thought of the arrogant "Colonels Clique" of Argentina and of its suspected desire to organize similar Fascist regimes in neighboring countries. Said Arturo Espinoza, Army commander in chief: "The Army is awake with its eyes wide open and will defend the Constitutional Government...
...those who looked beneath the surface of Chilean democracy, there were disturbing signs. Ever since the war began to affect the Western Hemisphere, Chile has suffered increasingly from inflation. Her upper and middle classes are reveling in paper profits. Nightclubs are jammed. Landlords have seen their properties increase five times in paper value...
...list with TIME: pro-Communist and liberal Argentine newspapers (like Argentine Libre); a few organs published for people in exile (like Checoeslovaquia Libre); 20 Mexican publications; 13 Chilean; 13 Uruguayan; a scattering from Spain, Cuba, Belgium, Venezuela, Russia; and 21 U.S. newspapers and magazines...