Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Wald is Higgins Professor of Biology. This article is the text of a speech he delivered to the International Commission of Enquiry into the Crimes of the Military Junta in Chile. The Commission met February 18 to 21 in Mexico...
...large are not imperialists; but we are unfortunate at present in having a highly imperialistic administration. I think that by far most Americans are deeply shocked--indeed can hardly believe it--when they learn that their government secretly subverted and helped to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chile under its democratically elected President Salvador Allende...
...First National City Bank and the Bank of America: "The Nixon Administration is a business administration. Its mission is to protect American business." That is clearly also the mission of the Ford Administration. Mr. Ford stated publicly in September 1974 his approval of the activities of the CIA in Chile...
...ties with Latin America may mildly improve after Kissinger finally visits the hemisphere in April. It should be quite a trip, with Argentina near chaos, Brazil's right-wing government showing some signs of loosening up, Chile under the heel of a regime that replaced Allende (whom the CIA is widely accused of helping to overthrow) and Venezuela angry about a new U.S. law that denies preferential trade treatment to members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Among other recent problems: Ecuador has renewed its sniping at U.S. tuna fishermen, and Colombia and Venezuela restored relations with Cuba despite...
This attempt to block the group's entrance is typical of the State Department's attitude toward Chile since Allende took power in 1970. We can only view the department's harassment of these exiled supporters of Allende as a posthumous criticism of Allende and a continued support for the repressive Pinochet government...