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Scene: A boulevard in Santiago, Chile...
...BOTH CHILE and the Russian Republic (as well the Moscow City Council and the entire Soviet Union) have been hailed in the popular press as attempting "free market reforms...
...Chile's foray into "capitalism" on the neo-liberal model began in 1973, when the democratically-elected left-wing government of Salvador Allende fell at the hand of a supposedly pro-free-market junta. The Soviet Union began its "market reforms" under Gorbachev in the mid-1980s. In the late 1980s, Boris Yeltsin and the mayor of Moscow supposedly endorsed and put into motion more radically free-market reforms...
...important -- or possible -- to find a child who looks just like themselves, but most experts acknowledge that the rush of bidders in Romania last year was largely explained by the fact that the children were Caucasian. Some aspiring parents, seeking to adopt in Latin America, prefer to go to Chile rather than, say, Peru or Colombia, because they consider Chilean children more likely to be light skinned and Caucasian-looking...
This coup, which sent Haiti's first freely elected President into exile after eight months in office, was particularly galling to the U.S. and the Organization of American States. The OAS had concluded at a meeting in Chile only four months ago that all 34 of its members were now democracies. To protect their legitimate governments -- some of them shaky -- from possible overthrow by military plotters, the organization's foreign ministers were authorized to "adopt any measures deemed appropriate" to reverse future coups...