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Ingratiatingly, alluringly, the Russians last week used the tools of trade and culture to turn Latin American eyes and aspirations away from the U.S., toward the U.S.S.R. The response from both Brazil and Chile gave the Communists cause to take heart...
...Chile played host to a large contingent of eager Russians, including Playwright-Author (Days and Nights) Konstantin Simonov, a power in the Soviet Writers' Union; the Cultural Ministry's Latin American chief, Konstantin Chugonov; Neurologist Leonidas Koreisha; and the 18-man Dynamo soccer team. Dynamo lost its Chilean match 1-0, but the Simonov team scored by making agreements to exchange teachers with Chile, to send copies of all books printed by Moscow University in return for copies of a single Chilean literary magazine, to send the Moscow Dramatic Theater for a visit in 1959. "Gentlemen, make your...
Santiago, Chile...
...result has been a jolting setback in the struggle toward a better life. By and large, the workers and middle classes of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Brazil live worse than they did ten years ago. And of all the nations of the world, they are among the least able to afford economic setbacks. Reason: their populations increase 2 14% annually, twice the world average; they must run twice as fast just to stand still...
Despite riots and bloodshed, Chile's President Carlos Ibanez del Campo (who will visit the U.S. next month) has stuck by the unpopular anti-inflationary course charted by the U.S. economic consulting firm of Klein & Saks (TIME, May 7, 1956). This year, as signs of success multiplied, the program took a terrible blow: the price of copper-source of 30% of all government revenues-fell 35%. New pleas to ease the belt-tightening program poured in, but crusty old (80) Austerocrat Ibanez held firm. Said he: "I am a man without a future. But we need to keep this...