Word: cuba
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Allende was backed by Cuba and the Soviet Union, who sought to turn Chile into a despotic socialist state by providing him with money, man-power, and thousands of weapons. Fidel Castro toured Chile in early 1973, giving speeches in favor of Allende’s "revolution." Allende was accordingly condemned by the legislature, the judiciary, and three former presidents (including Eduardo Frei, a Marxist and former supporter of Allende) for his abuses. Finally, with many certain that a coup was inevitable given the hyperinflation (a paycheck from one week could not even afford bread in the next week), starvation...
...military ousted and probably killed, hardly shared Pinochet's bloodlust; but his government had indeed run Marxist-amuck by 1973. The economy was in state-run free fall and radical but influential leftist groups were calling for (if not already trying to carry out) an armed shift to Cuba-style communism. Pinochet always asserted that he was not part of a coup but a "civil war." In that sense, Pinochet maintained until his death that he had "saved" Chile...
...David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. The Kennedy visiting professor told a crowd of about 40 scholars and students that the three covert meetings could have matured into a more fruitful diplomatic relationship between the two countries. “The embargo became central in U.S. policy towards Cuba,” said Hernández, a faculty member at the University of Havana. “Its dense web of regulations, prohibitions, and exclusions narrowed the legal space to experiment with an alternative policy and tightened the hands of future decision-makers willing to ‘carrot?...
...private hospital because she couldn't pay - Garcia is now getting attention at a free government-sponsored health care clinic. The program - called Barrio Adentro, Spanish for "inside the neighborhood" - brings tens of thousands of Cuban doctors to work in Venezuela in exchange for sending Venezuelan oil to Cuba under preferential terms. Since 2003, thousands of redbrick clinics have sprung up across the country, giving the poor 24-hour-a-day treatment closer to home...