Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst thing that happened to Charles de Gaulle last week was that an aide dropped a briefcase full of papers into the water as he hopped from a launch onto the quay at Valparaiso, Chile. It hardly mattered. After 14 days of his 27-day Latin American trip, De Gaulle had it all down pat, and was moving at what the French call vitesse de croisière, comfortable cruising speed...
...with him, and he was feeling so well that he complained about one day's schedule not being full enough. Seasoned De Gaullologists were startled to see him hugely enjoying a colorfully costumed Bolivian "devil dance," despite his dis dain for things folkloric. They were stunned when in Chile he actually responded with a big wave to photographers' shouts for just one more...
Such talk has a strong appeal for the underprivileged-and also for Latin America's deeply religious women, rich or poor. In Chile, it was the women who gave Frei his large majority. He broke about even with Marxist Salvador Allende for the men's vote; the women (who use separate ballot boxes in Chile) gave him almost 63% of their vote. Frei's own sister Irene, 46, was one of the country's most popular political figures until her death in an auto accident five weeks ago. In Santiago municipal elections last year, she herself...
...Chile & Beyond. The earliest ancestors of today's Christian Democrats turned up in Uruguay in 1910, and over the years other parties sprouted-first in Chile, then Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and on throughout Latin America. In 1947 party delegates met in Montevideo to form a hemisphere-wide confederation. Three years ago, in Santiago, the European and Latin American branches formally joined forces in a Christian Democratic World Union...
...stronghold of Latin America's Christian Democrats is, of course, Chile, where the party has soared from 3.4% of the vote in 1941 to 56% in Frei's election. How much of this was due to Christian Democracy itself, and how much to Frei's charismatic personality, will not be clear until congressional elections next March. Right now, the party has only 27 members in Congress, 70 short of a majority...