Word: chileans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...United States government also bears responsibility for Chile's economic difficulties. Before Allende took power, the U.S. was giving Chile substantial amounts of economic aid. Now, the United States has cut off all economic aid, and is giving money only to the Chilean military. Moreover, the U.S. has worked in international financial organization to cut off Chile's credit...
Despite Chile's difficulties, support for Popular Unity is growing. The profits from copper, once extracted for American corporate barons, now benefit the Chilean people, and the country is now the master of its own economic destiny. Social reforms have added to Allende's already broad base of support among the working class and peasant Chileans...
Atilio Boron, a Government graduate student specializing in Chilean affairs said Allende's percentage of the total vote was "a great victory." He added that it was the first election in the twentieth century in which an incumbent Chilean president had increased his support in the parliament
...show sweat now that foreign bosses are out. Industrial production in October, the most recently recorded month, fell 7% from the same period a year earlier, and farm output in 1972 was down roughly 10% from 197 1. The quality of production has slumped in nearly every category: most Chilean bread, for instance, is now a coarse, sour, brown sludge that produces more gas than nourishment. Allende is talking about handing back to Chilean businessmen some of the companies that his government earlier expropriated but now cannot manage...
Preaching at a thanksgiving Mass in Montevideo for the survivors and their families, a Roman Catholic priest, Father Eduardo Rodríguez said: "What happens to them will depend on us now, and on the love and understanding that we are capable of giving them." As a Chilean paper asked rhetorically in the headline of one story about the incident: WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE...