Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protesters confronted Colby inside the Faculty Club, asking him to come outside and answer questions about the CIA's role in the September 1973 military coup in Chile...
Inspired by the heady success of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in pumping up the price of oil, four countries that account for 70% of the world's copper exports last week adopted some of OPEC's tactics. Zambia, Zaire, Chile and Peru, members of a cartel called the Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries (CIPEC) announced plans to reduce shipments of the metal by 10%. Said Fernandez Maldonado, Peru's Minister of Energy and Mines: "The Arabs have shown...
Metal traders were skeptical that CIPEC could drive up prices. They questioned the effectiveness of a cutback in shipments without a reduction in production. Almost in response, the Chilean government announced that it would close down the Exotica Mine for six months; the mine, one of Chile's largest, last year produced about 32,000 tons, or only 4% of Chile's copper exports. That should certainly not be enough to kick up prices-unless more member countries also close their mines...
Barely one week after the toppling of Salvador Allende's regime last year, Chilean authorities set about arresting drug smugglers. During the Allende years, according to Interpol, Chile had played host to the world's largest cocaine-trafficking operation, and the U.S., which was at the receiving end of the line, was not at all happy. The new junta and American narcs quickly worked out a cozy arrangement. Five federal drug agents flew to Chile to finger smugglers. Chilean police arrested and eventually expelled the suspects on a nonstop flight to the U.S.-often after days of torture...
Picked up in Chile during the past year, the suspects were shipped out via chartered planes. Many slept peacefully through the flight, thanks to tranquilizers administered by U.S. drug officers, and awoke in New York City, where indictments awaited them. Though few had ever been in the U.S. before, they were subject to federal law because each was said to be part of a smuggling conspiracy that extended into the U.S. In most of the cases, there was little question that the men involved had dealt in cocaine and sometimes heroin. The question was whether they had been abducted...