Word: chonchol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small to be legally expropriated. Many of the raiders are impoverished Mapuche Indians who have lived in squalid villages since their tribe was conquered by the Chileans in 1881 and are all too eager to settle a score with the "huincas" (white men). Allende dispatched agriculture Minister Jacques Chonchol to the province in January. In an effort to salvage untended crops on the occupied farms, his ministry contracted with many groups of squatters to take over their operation. The administration evidently hopes that land seizures will end when its own, legal expropriation program, which so far has not relocated...
...that effort, Allende appointed a 15-man Cabinet that includes only one Chilean of international stature -Jacques Chonchol, an agronomist who headed Frei's agrarian reform movement but broke with the Christian Democrats because he believed they were moving too slowly on land reform. The new President reserved four Cabinet posts for his own Socialist Party, one more than expected, and gave the better-organized Communists only three. That may indicate that Allende has a healthy wariness of his foremost allies...
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