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...THING TO remember about Chile is that for a while at least, it seemed as though the poor people of the world could build a humane society--a country which they would own and where they could live freely--without needing to use violence and without a violent break with the past, and it seemed that the people who'd always held power might let them get away with...
Even at the time, it was hard to get a feel for exactly what life in revolutionary Chile was like. American newspapers always gave far more play to marches by disgruntled middle-class housewives than to those of the people who'd elected Salvador Allende, and today, when only the soldiers can march and the people who elected Allende are silenced once more, the only news stories you can find tell about new waves of repression, coupled with new, albeit startlingly familiar boasts by the generals who rule Chile that the country is saved because the ships...
...most and best, perhaps because they cared more than the Socialists or maybe even the Christian Left about conciliating the middle class, about persuading everyone with a brain and pair of eyes in his head that Popular Unity meant unshackling the spirit as well as the body politic of Chile...
Superkid isn't available in Chile any more, and the artists who joined the Ramona Para brigades because they believed art could speak to everyone will have to go back to speaking to a small, elite audience. In the days after September's coup soldiers went through Santiago whitewashing walls as well as burning books and killing people they disliked. One of the 6000 prisoners in the National Stadium after the coup was a pro-Popular Unity singer, a man named Jarra. An officer in the stadium took a hatchet and cut off Jarra's fingers, according to a purportedly...
...speech that seemed to be aimed at Washington as well as at Castro, Brezhnev told the rally that Soviet weapons in Cuba were not "for attacking anyone but for defending your revolutionary gains." He warned Latin American leftists that despite "the fascist coup in Chile," Moscow was opposed to the use of subversion as a political tool. "Revolution feeds not on somebody's subversion or propaganda," he declared, "but on realities, on the unbearable conditions in which people have to live. The Soviet Union has always considered to be criminal any attempt to export counterrevolution. But neither are Communists...