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...Outside Chile's Chamber of Deputies, one day last week, pistol-bearing carabineros watched as left-wing students gathered, chanting: "Chile, yes! Yankees, no!" Inside, deputies packed the chamber to vote on a treaty under which the U.S. would give Chile a share of the $38,150,000 available for military aid to Latin America. Amid tumult and tension, each deputy rose, voted and explained his vote. Cried Socialist Poet Baltazar Castro: "I vote no because I want a free and worthy homeland." Retorted Conservative José Correa: "I vote yes, for the same reason." The treaty passed...
...academicians ignored him, and for a while so did his own school. It was not until the Blind and Deaf-Mute Congress of 1878 that Braille's dots won final international recognition. After that, the system began to spread-to the Mandarin of China, the Araucanian of Chile, the Swahili of East Africa, to 49 different languages...
...fate of the great tin mines, 72% foreign-controlled (in the U.S., Chile, Switzerland) and source of 80% of Bolivia's foreign exchange, is the revolution's No. 1 question. Paz ran in 1951 on a nationalization platform. His backer, Juan Lechin, Marxist mine labor leader who now holds the new office of Minister of Mine: and Petroleum, is on record that "the workers must equip themselves to run the mine: effectively without the assistance of the owners." Paz almost certainly still intends to nationalize the mines, but he apparently means to go slow. For one thing, recognition...
...Chile. This temperate-zone republic, inhabited by energetic, business-minded people, practices a highly developed democracy of the French permanent cabinet-crisis type. Now suffering from acute inflation...
...least duel, for his sacred personal rights, the record shows that he also goes in heavily for hero worship. Since Bolívar's day, Latin Americans have tended to follow men rather than parties or principles. They call themselves Peronistas, Arnulfistas (in Panama), Ibañistas (in Chile). Most of their caudillos, their strong men, have come from the army. Currently, military men preside over eleven Latino governments. Instead of confining themselves to the job of defending their country, Latin American militarists are entrenched as "the only well-organized political party" in every country except Costa Rica, Uruguay...