Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hortencia Busia de Allende, widow of the late Chilean president, last night called the present military junta of Chile a "regime which violates all human rights," and praised Americans who worked to "unmask U.S. aggression in Chile...
...trouble with Peru is that its military dictatorship leans toward the left. It has nationalized several U.S. businesses, and has initiated reform programs to make Peru's economic life more independent. Peru is now under heavy pressure, perhaps even in danger of military attack. It shares borders with Chile. Bolivia and Brazil, all ultra-rightist regimes and all client states of the U.S. Also it has just been announced from Washington that the Administration is considering cutting off all arms aid to Peru, on the grounds that such action would balance the U.S. Congressional ban on arms aid to Chile...
...threat to that system than Cuba. In part this was because it was the first elected socialist regime in Latin America, and so aroused the fear that if it was successful there might be a domino effect throughout the Latin American states. Also there was the direct involvement in Chile of such giant U.S. corporations as ITT and Anaconda, both of which have recently negotiated large financial settlements with the Chilean junta: $125 million to ITT, $253 million to Anaconda...
...beyond these political and economic considerations, the military coup in Chile represents a violent attack upon our entire concept of human rights. The whole world is horrified by the brutality with which the junta has operated, its widespread use of imprisonment without charges or trials, its beatings, rape, torture and murder of prisoners...
...Americans have the special task to see to it that our country begins again, as at its birth, to represent peace and democracy throughout the world; that it insist upon human rights and decency everywhere; and that such subversion and intervention as our recent U.S. administrations have practiced in Chile must never happen again...