Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chilean government deported Townley last month in response to pressure by the U.S. government which culminated in a threat to withdraw the American ambassador to Chile, George Landau...
...also a former Chilean foreign minister and defense minister--when they traveled but never entertained the possibility of anything happening in the U.S. In retrospect, however, Moffitt believes that it is logical that the assassination took place in the U.S. because of the history of U.S. involvement in Chile and because, he suggests someone here had something to hide...
...make up a large portion of the Christian Democrats Party (PDC), has been squeezed by Pinochet's rigid "free trade" Chicago school economic policies, and that there has been a split within the ruling junta. He suggests that there are people in the U.S. and in "influential circles" in Chile who would like to see Pinochet replaced by a government formed by General Gustavo Leigh, commander of the Chilean Air Force, and Eduardo Frei, former president of Chile and a leader of the PDC, Moffitt says many people believe that Pinochet "is not an asset any longer...
Moffitt projects three reasons for the junta's "assassination" of Letelier. First, the government was "terrified of the Democrats coming to power because of the possible cut-off of loans." In early 1976, Letelier managed to convince the Dutch government to cancel its $60 million loan to Chile. In addition he met with the heads of the dockworkers union and convinced them not to unload Chilean goods--not only in Holland but anywhere in the world. Shortly after this successful trip, Moffitt says, the Chilean press began to extensively cover Letelier's activities. He notes how Letelier and his wife...
...principal movers in getting a dialogue-in-exile going with the Christian Democrats following the military coup that overthrew the Allende government. Letelier apparently united the Christian Democrats and the remnants of the Popular Unity Party to draw up concrete plans for a transitional government in Chile. Moffitt claims the Christian Democrats trusted Letelier because he was a graduate of the military academy in Chile, a lawyer at the Inter-American Development Bank, and "he was never identified with the far left of the Socialist Party...