Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fight back' and 'down with the junta and the CIA, no free speech for Eduardo Frei' filled the room as the crowd settled into seats...." It is ironical to note that Frei, a liberal politician (who actually started the Agrarian Reform expropriations and the nationalization of American companies in Chile) was labeled by these cliche-ridden protesters as "fascist" merely because he actively supports the junta. Another example of this took place a few weeks ago when I spotted a man in Harvard Square wearing a tee-shirt with the Chilean flag and the words: "Chile libre." I walked...
...Allende! The author also makes some unsupported generalizations such as the statement about E1 Mercurio, the opposition paper, being "funded by the CIA and ITT." I wonder what LeMoyne's sources are for saying this? The Communist Journal perhaps? During the entire editorial, he also criticizes American intervention in Chile. However, he also criticizes American neutrality during the coup itself. This is obviously an ideological contradiction. He seems to believe that American intervention in Chile would have been all right if they would have aided the Socialists rather than the military...
...revolt. Nowhere in his editorial does LeMoyne mention the Chilean people's support of the military coup, which drowns out any pragmatic effect of the American aid. The author's derogatory implications are clear in the following sentence: "The end product of the policies of the U.S. government towards Chile was the military coup that occurred in September 1973." Not mentioning how insignificant the $8 million really was in relation to the Chilean effort is extremely offending. Furthermore, LeMoyne talks about money being available to bribe Chilean Congressmen into voting against Allende. But PLEASE do not insinuate that the Chilean...
...Chile and Peru, however, could find themselves at war with each other. Both nations have been frantically modernizing their armed forces in the past year and have exchanged vitriolic verbal attacks over a border area in dispute since 1881. A Peruvian armored unit has been reported garrisoned just north of the Chilean border. All this may be nothing more than empty posturing, but observers warn that the rhetoric could create a momentum of its own, ending in hostilities...
Here is IPI'S scorecard: In South America, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil all have a muzzled press; Bolivia and Argentina are heading that way; and Chile's newspapers have dwindled from eleven in the days of Allende to five today...