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...East German quickly found a friend: Clodomiro Almeyda, the Chilean ambassador to Moscow, who had been given refuge in East Germany following the $ bloody 1973 coup in Chile. Almeyda invited Honecker to stay in his embassy while he asked his government to give Honecker asylum. Then came Santiago's response...
...military coup on September 11, 1973, ended more than 100 years of democratic rule in Chile. The military dismantled or repressed Congress, unions and political parties, quashing opposition and dissent. The state's welfare system was severely cut or privatized. The military's neo-liberal economic model left much of the popular sector unemployed, impoverished and struggling to survive...
Many civil liberties have returned since Chile's first democratically elected president in seventeen years took office in March 1990. However, more than five million poor remain part of the legacy of military rule. Of these, 1.5 million live in the shantytowns surrounding Santiago...
...Chile Con Carne-Meatless...
...CALL CHILE and Russia "capitalist" or "free market" in their reforms ignores the market that really matters. If Russia wants to emulate the economic successes of the United States (or even of Rumania) it should move away from the Chilean corporatist model. The free market, to function well, must be free for all, not just for a select few big businesses chosen at random by bribed bureaucrats...