Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazilian hump provides a handy springboard for a possible future attack on that already half-hostile base. Because of its size and influence, belligerent Brazil elbows the whole South American continent closer to World War II. Already there are signs that Uruguay may follow Brazil's lead, that Chile may break relations with the Axis. This may help to balance the activities of Argentina, Brazil's chief rival for influence over smaller South American countries. Glumly neutral Argentina, though it planned to grant Brazil nonbelligerent status, may try to cram Paraguay into its pocket and sew up Bolivia...
...prepared for restoration of Ttahuantinsuyu ("the Four Quarters of the World") to the Indians. He himself may never see that day. But to his son, Prince Calvino Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela, may come his rightful heritage: dominion over all the lands between Quito, Ecuador, and the Maule River in Chile. Virgins will light long-extinguished sacred fires. And priests will greet the rising sun with kisses thrown from their finger tips...
...Firebrand Siqueiros walked out of jail, was given a passport and money. In Chile he was again arrested, again released. Back in Mexico the police still officially wanted Exile Siqueiros. The Mexican Government was meanwhile paying him handsomely for his Chilian...
...gone to Chile to paint the murals, green-eyed David Alfaro Siqueiros, considered them his greatest work. A famed Mexican artist and Marxist firebrand, for the past 20 years, he has been making himself a double reputation...
Whether the eruptive scenes he had painted were the proper stuff to soothe Chilean children at their library tables; whether Chile's Government, in an anti-Marxist mood, might some day take a cue from Mexico's, and board them up, remained for the future to decide. One of Siqueiros' most famous murals, The Burial of a Worker, in Mexico City's National Preparatory School, has been hidden behind a board fence ever since...