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...Liberty for all our compañeros who have been tortured and are being judged!" The small woman was shouting angrily as she emerged from the panel truck outside the Dominican embassy in Bogota, which has served as a venue for negotiations between the Colombian government and the terrorists. "It is our final word! We are holding firm; our mission is to win or die!" Then the guerrilla, wearing jeans and a hood over her face, flashed a V-for-victory sign at the police and press clustered outside the embassy. With a defiant turn of heel, she strode back...
...junta also banned the use of the term compañero, or comrade, which had been the ritual greeting of Allende's supporters. Flying squads of painters, meanwhile, ranged across Santiago to cleanse political slogans and provocative graffiti off the city's walls. The Socialist and Communist parties were outlawed...
...revolutionaries had other demands as well. They wanted their Marxist-lining manifesto published on the front pages of leading dailies throughout Mexico. They specified a time for Cuba's representative in Mexico to appear on national television and report the safe arrival in Havana of the 30 compañeros. They also warned that there was to be no army or police mobilization in the Guadalajara area while negotiations were going...
...sadly: "You stop trying to get ahead because you just don't know what is going to happen next." Twenty miles away in the tiny village of Las Vertientes, a local handyman has quit working and spends most days sitting idly in front of his crude shack. "El compaňero presidente," he says, "will give us everything we need...
During a recent appearance at his summer White House in Valparaiso, Allende heard a peasant in the cheering crowd shout: "Compaňero Presidente, this arm of mine will work 20 times harder than before the people came to power!" Allende's first measurable test of popularity will come in a nationwide round of municipal elections in early April, when he hopes that his "Popular Unity" front will win control of Chile's major cities. To keep things as calm as possible, the President has announced that a planned visit by Fidel Castro has been postponed until after...