Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the outside world by reflecting--or inventing--human qualities in their purest form? In brief explanations interspersed through the narrative. Donoso insists that his novel is artifice and that a book should not remind its audiences of its daily existence. But he clearly depicts the turmoil produced in Chile and other clearly South American countries by an export illustrates the conflict between a foreign investors' elite and an entrenched local elite descended from colonial Spaniards. He attacks his topic with both satire and allegory. The Ventures are so ludicrous that they seem gross caricatures of a complacent elite...
Critics, in a sniveling attempt to place Donoso in a genre, have often compared him to Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquees. Their similarities--in subject matter and setting, for example--stem only from the aspects of Spanish colonial heritage common to Chile and Colombia The mixing of several cultures gives these writer a wider range of plausible stories, as well as a greater sense of freedom to experiment with the unlikely. But unlike Marquez, Donoso derives much of his energy from the extreme self-consciousness of his art Each time Donoso turns from one event to another, he explains that...
...advisers. Archbishop Pio Laghi, 61, the apostolic delegate in Washington, will become Wilson's counterpart, the papal pronuncio. One of the Holy See's ablest diplomats, he previously served in Argentina, where he assisted the Vatican's mediation of the Beagle Channel dispute between Argentina and Chile...
With respected to politics, everything is very grim and there's terrible repression. We have lamented over many dramatic events. People sent into internal exile, mass torture, large scale illegal searches of homes, deaths, and on and on without end. The other day a man in Concepcion [Chile's second major city] lit himself on fire in the central plaza because his son and daughter had disappeared. They were being held in secret prison by the CNI [Chilrean Intelligence Service, known for its practice of brutal tortures...
...18th of November we have a rally called by the Democratic Alliance and various sectors of the working class and the Political Parties in O' Higgins Park [all political parties are illegal in Chile]. We hope and expect it to be a big one. I hope it goes well for us and they don't kill...