Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a curt announcement last week, Chile became the first of the four Latin American holdouts to follow through on the OAS sanctions against Communist Cuba. Though the government had voted against breaking economic and diplomatic relations with Castro, President Jorge Alessandri decided that Chile had no choice but to honor the will of the majority-and do it promptly. Still to be heard from are Bolivia and Uruguay; Mexico has refused to break relations. "The resolution against Cuba," said Alessandri, "has to be complied with. If not, it would imply a serious precedent and mean sooner or later...
...move came as a surprise because it caught Chile in the full heat of a tense presidential election campaign. By law, the conservative Alessandri cannot succeed himself. When 2,500,000 Chilean voters go to the polls on Sept. 4, they will choose between two main candidates, both left-of-center: Salvador Allende, 56, rasping, demagogic leader of the far-left Popular Action Front (FRAP), and Eduardo Frei, 53, the forceful, hawk-nosed head of the Christian Democratic Party. In the 1958 elections, Allende came within a hairbreadth 29,000 votes of becoming the Hemisphere's first avowed Marxist...
...relations with Cuba are, at best, coldly correct. But the Mexicans believe that their Havana embassy and air link with Cuba provide an escape route. More important, Mexico vigorously resists anything that smacks of follow-the-leader-in this case, the U.S. So last month, it had joined Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay-the three other Latin American countries still maintaining relations with Cuba-in voting against the OAS sanctions. With last week's action, Mexico itself became a leader of sorts. Bolivia and Chile started wavering in their plans for a break in relations; only Uruguay appeared ready...
...proliferations of aviation service anywhere in the world. All told, the lines traveled some 5 billion passenger-miles, carried over 94 million ton-miles of cargo, and could point to some impressive traffic growth: 175% in the past ten years, v. 117% for the rest of the world. Argentina, Chile and Colombia have all more than tripled their passenger traffic since 1954; Uruguay is up almost 400%, while Brazil ranks third in the free world (after the U.S. and Canada) in the number of daily domestic flights...
...Prayer. Latin Americans have been air-minded almost from the first days of flight. The airplane smoothed over the continent's fractured geography, knitted together its scattered populations and-most important of all -proved a far cheaper means of transport than building highways or laying track. In 1919, Chile was the first country outside the U.S. to launch an airmail service; one year later, Colombia licensed the first commercial airline this side of the Atlantic; in 1934, Brazil established the first transatlantic air route with Germany-five years before Pan American connected the U.S. with Europe...