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...wake of those dashed hopes, a strong tide of nationalism has begun to flow. It is particularly apparent in three Andean nations: Chile, which last year elected its first Marxist President, and Peru and Bolivia, both ruled by army regimes. All three nations have made moves to break the hold of large American financial interests by nationalizing major industries. The result has frequently been to increase strains in U.S.-Latin relations...
...Chile: Owner of the Future When the Chilean Congress unanimously passed a constitutional amendment last week nationalizing the copper mines, the whole country went on an emotional tear. Newspapers, billboards and walls blossomed with the slogan...
...Chile has put on its long pants! Finally the copper is ours...
LIKE the Andean republics to the north, Chile lies along the "circle of fire," a ring of volcanoes and seismic fault lines that encircle the Pacific Basin. The west coast of South America, in particular, is a storm center of seismic shocks set off by the depth and turbulence of the Peru-Chile trench offshore. One such shock struck Peru in May 1970, killing an estimated 50,000 people. The Chileans too have paid a heavy price for their geography. Some 3,000 Chileans were killed in the 1906 earthquake...
...evening last week, an earthquake struck central Chile once again. Damage in the capital of Santiago itself was not heavy. But next morning, when President Salvador Allende Gossens flew to the agricultural regions of Illapel and Salamanca, he was stunned. "It was dreadful," he said of the scene in Hierro Viejo (pop. 5,000), where virtually every building had been destroyed. The toll: at least 90 persons killed, 250 injured and 15,000 left homeless...