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Word: chiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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BECAUSE THE FACE of a free nation in Chile is a facade on every level. When we first drove in from the airport, we were shown houses damaged by a serious earthquake that hit Chile the year before last. There were holes in some of them, but most of the houses, our friends explained, fell inward, leaving the four outside walls standing with nothing left inside. Chile is also a four-walled facade, inside which terror strikes under the cover of night...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: Appearance and Reality in Chile | 2/18/1986 | See Source »

What conclusions are we to draw? It is true that for the upper middle class who make no waves and think no subversive thoughts, Chile may be a better place to live than a typical Soviet client-state. But the U.S. is not going to change the Soviet system by our support or non-support. We may persuade them to reunite a few spouses or release a dissident or two, but our overall policy must be based on the recognition that we have to work with the Soviets as they...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: Appearance and Reality in Chile | 2/18/1986 | See Source »

...ruling elite. They are printed and read by perhaps 5000 people. The tiny circulation of these magazines insure that the cost to the junta of their being read by a handful of intellectuals is far outweighed by the benefit of bringing them before the U.N. as proof of Chile's free press. The junta knows also that many Chileans cannot read and that those who read these unsanctioned publications often pay a price not listed on the front cover...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: Appearance and Reality in Chile | 2/18/1986 | See Source »

Sixty percent of the people in Chile make less than $40 a month. There is 30 percent unemployment and absolutely no welfare, not even unemployment or health insurance. Food is shared communally to fend off starvation. The military does not dare enter the barrios, which are almost in a state of civil war. The slumdwellers have organized themselves and send out groups to ambush patrolling soldiers. But the poor have nothing, neither food nor guns, only their rage and their stones...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: Appearance and Reality in Chile | 2/18/1986 | See Source »

...course, poverty existed in Chile before the last decade, but the two-city split is new to this era of military rule. There is no mingling even in the marketplace, and the gap between the wage of the average unskilled worker and that of the typical white-collar professional is about 100 times what...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: Appearance and Reality in Chile | 2/18/1986 | See Source »

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