Word: chilena
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...personal consequences of the Pinochet government's systematic repression of its opposition have touched even Harberger's life. His wife's brother, who served as Allende's cultural attache, is now a Chilean poet in exile. He publishes a literary magazine out of Los Angeles-- Literatura Chilena en El Exicilio-- and organizes efforts against the Pinochet government there. Harberger says the government branded his brother-in-law's passport with an L, which means that he can never return to his homeland while the Pinochet junta is in power...
...Golf district, known for its fine houses and the rending beauty of the girls who parade each Saturday along Providencia Avenue, machine gunners lay prone under budding fruit trees. One soldier, submachine gun at the ready, dagger slung from his shoulder, was being besieged by a comely Chilena who kept threatening to put a flower in his dagger sheath. He resisted. But when I passed the spot a few minutes later, I noticed that the soldier had lost the battle, although perhaps won another...
Most important of all, the republics set to work to make what they could no longer import. Argentines shipped fewer hides, turned them into finished leather goods themselves. Chileans proudly looked for the label Fabricación Chilena on their tires, even though the rubber and cotton material still had to be shipped in. In Brazil's São Paulo alone, 300 new firms grew up during one year, to make such former import standbys as cotton and wool yarns, rayon, rails, leather goods cellophane, ceramic and chemical products...
...direct investments in Chile totalled $442,000,000. Most important companies were Baldwin Locomotive Works; Wright Aeronautical Corp., having local factories; All America Cables, which beside its cable business operates the local telephone system; Electric Bond & Share Co., operating trams, providing light and power through its subsidiary Compania Chilena de Electricidad; and "Cosach," the Guggenheim nitrate combine, which controls 35% of the world's annual output of natural fertilizer. Nitrates were what brought Chile to this sorry pass...
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