Word: chiles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...orchestrated display of outrage was becoming increasingly familiar. As dusk fell over Chile's capital of Santiago, tens of thousands of people began beating pots and pans in a rhythmic cacophony. In the densely populated slum of Herminda La Victoria, gangs of unemployed youths defied a strict curfew, barricading the streets with burning tires and chanting "Down with the dictatorship!" Rumbling through the capital's nearly deserted streets, army troops and police tried to intimidate the demonstrators by firing submachine guns into the air and throwing tear-gas grenades at them. The toll of the 5½-hour...
...regime for its anti-Communist stance, some U.S. officials now fear that Pinochet's failure to promote democracy could plunge the country into civil war. The State Department specifically condemned the arrest of three prominent opposition leaders as "a regrettable manifestation of the serious tensions and divisions" in Chile, and called for "moderation and dialogue" leading to the restoration of democracy...
...addition, the authorities arrested Chile's most distinguished opposition figure, Christian Democratic Party President Gabriel Valdés. He and two other party officials were held for five days of questioning after they had appeared in court to testify on behalf of youths caught with 700,000 leaflets endorsing the protests. The arrest may have been a mistake. A crowd of 500 jammed Santiago's Supreme Court building to hear a lawyer read a statement signed by 1,000 prominent Chileans calling for Valdés' release. Said a Socialist politician: "The dictatorship has unwillingly made...
Spearheaded by the activist 23,000-member Copper Workers Confederation, Chile's largest union, the protest movement has attracted support from a broad range of Chilean opinion: labor leaders, conservative and leftist politicians, business leaders and farmers. Its leading figure is Rodolfo Seguel, a 29-year-old cashier at a grimy mining center, who rose from obscurity five months ago to become the chief of the Copper Workers Confederation and is sometimes called the Chilean Lech Walesa. Said he: "We are pacifist in attitude and active in behavior. If they hit us with clubs, we will endure. We will...
Opposition leaders have vowed to continue their protests until Pinochet yields to their demands, something the general has shown no signs of doing. The contest of wills in Chile is far from over...