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...representative organizations as. The World Council of Churches. The Organization of American States. The Catholic Church of Santiago. The World Bank Review The United Nations, Amnesty International, and the Governments of Mexico, Sweden, Germany, England, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Italy (among others) have a very different view of contemporary Chile from the one held by Nicolas Bilbikopf (The Mail, January...
...number of shiny new weapons that rumble past the reviewing stand during a military parade. Moreover, disputed borders and the suspicion of seemingly hostile neighbors frequently lead to intense local arms races. This has been the case with India and Pakistan, Mali and Upper Volta, and Peru, Bolivia and Chile...
Latin America is also enmeshed in an arms buildup. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela are sufficiently prosperous to modernize their arsenals. They have purchased frigates and submarines from West Germany and Britain, Mirage fighter-bombers and howitzers from France and jet trainers from Italy. Peru last year startled its neighbors and Washington by turning to Moscow for arms costing about $85 million?some 600 T-54 and T-55 tanks, plus artillery and antiaircraft guns and missiles...
Thanks to this arms race, tension has already begun building on the Peru-Chile border. Lima's military strongmen are believed to want to retake the Ta-rapaca province which Peru lost to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Peru has its new Soviet-made equipment; Santiago, meanwhile, is receiving more than $500 million in warplanes, tanks and ships purchased in the past 18 months from the U.S. and Europe. Fearing that it will be caught in the middle if war erupts, Bolivia has decided that it must modernize its weaponry to protect itself, even though...
...Bogota and then going off to Caracas to sell them the antidote." The most successful modern practitioners of this ploy seem to be the fleet-footed French, who first sold the Exocet antiship missile to Peru's leftist dictatorship in 1973, then leaked the news to neighboring Chile, whose rightist leaders became so jittery that they too bought the missile...