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...reason for such restraint. During a press breakfast in Washington, White House Director of Communications Herbert Klein commented that he and Presidential Counsellor Robert Finch both came away from their recent swing through six Latin American countries with the "feeling" that Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens' government in Chile "won't last long...
...careless remark was tailor-made for Allende, who tries at every turn to blame the U.S. for his mounting political and economic difficulties. Worse yet, the comment made headlines in Chile on the day of the ugliest antigovernment demonstration since Allende took office in November...
...might have been a comic re-creation of the Paris housewives' march on Versailles during the early days of the French Revolution in 1789. Last week's demonstration, dubbed "the March of the Empty Pots," was organized by the opposition Christian Democrat and National parties to publicize Chile's food shortages and embarrass Allende on the eve of visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's departure. More than 5,000 Chilean women, dressed in simple cotton prints, minis and sleek pantsuits, headed for downtown Santiago, snarling traffic and filling the spring evening air with the sounds...
...Emanuel de Kadt, in his books Catholic Radicals in Brazil, states that the Metodo Paulo Freire "...was still characterized by potential rather than actual achievements, by promise more than realization." Yet the concrete plans for 1964 were to reach 2 million illiterates. He continued his work with illiterates in Chile for 4 more years before there too the government felt that the people he was working with were moving too far and too fast and it "requested" that he leave. The Center for the Study of Development of Social Change, offices atop the Harvard Square Theater, had become interested...
Similar economic stagnation-along with similar inaction by the established politicians-helped bring a Marxist coalition to power in Chile last year and has spawned a predominantly leftist front in Uruguay, where elections were held early this week. Both movement are strongly nationalistic and directed to a large degree against foreign investment. ANAPO, using the same technique, calls for a state takeover of all mineral wealth, the import-export trade and the banking system. A probable target might be some of the $700 million private U.S. stake in Colombia, half of it in oil. But Rojas Pinilla himself does...