Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILE: With general elections less than six months away, a congressional election in Curicó, south of Santiago, turned the sleepy farming province into a sort of Latin New Hampshire. Campaigning as if it were the real thing were the three principal presidential candidates: Julio Durán of the right-wing Democratic Front, the coalition of President Jorge Alessandri (who cannot succeed himself); Salvador Allende of the Communist-dominated Popular Action Front; and Eduardo Frei of the left-of-center Christian Democrats. In 1958 Allende came breathtakingly close to becoming the first avowed far-leftist to be elected President...
...revolution who is outspokenly antiCommunist, argues that the government should break off diplomatic relations with Cuba. If he has his way, Bolivia's decision to sever ties with Castro might lead to new consideration of such action by some or all of the other four hemisphere holdouts: Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay...
Asked for predictions of future CIA activities, he guessed the CIA might interfere in Chile, if the Socialist-Communist coalition won in the elections next September, and in South Vietnam, if President Johnson negotiated a settlement there...
This week in Chile, New York's Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits went even further. Javits warned against the "erosion of investor confidence" in Lat in America, predicted a "great outward tide" of private investment, both in U.S. and local money, unless a major effort is made to reverse the trend. It is up to Latin American governments, said Javits, to do more to improve the climate for business. The private sector actually accounts for 70% of all economic activity in Latin America. And, contrary to popular belief, said Javits, "90% of that private sector is owned by Latin...
...language barriers (see listings for the Danes and Japanese below}. Any notion that the Latin Americans have failed to get the message is dispelled by this roundup of 17 accomplished painters from eight countries, among them Rufino Tamayo of Mexico, Alejandro Obregón of Colombia, Matta of Chile. Alejandro Otero of Venezuela and Wifredo Lam of Cuba. Through March...