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...kind of opportunity that Old Athlete Fidel Castro cannot resist...
...times, Fidel was more like a touring inspector general than a visiting head of government. Obviously well-coached about the problems that Allende's government is having with falling production, rising absenteeism and soaring wage demands at Chile's newly nationalized mines, Castro vigorously railed against troublemaking "demagogues" and "reactionaries" during a speech at a mine in Pedro de Valdivia. At Chuquicamata, the world's largest open-pit copper operation, he launched into a lecture on productivity. He thundered that "a hundred tons less per day means a loss of $36 mil lion a year...
After eating a boiled chicken dinner one evening high in the mine-area mountains, Castro summoned the cook from the kitchen. What, he wanted to know, was the boiling point of water? One hun dred twenty degrees centigrade, answered the cook. "No," snapped Fidel...
...presence would sanctify his own efforts to tame Chile's obstreperous unions and mollify the extremists who want to turn the country into a pure socialist state overnight. With those elements, Castro certainly scored some points; one Chuquicamata copper miner enthusiastically told newsmen last week that "Fidel made us see the importance of our producing more. Now, we are all Fidelistas." But the visit also cost Allende some of his remaining good will among the Chilean political middle, which does not hold the Cuban dictator in particular esteem...
...Havana but also for Moscow. In going to Chile, Castro was in effect admitting that the kind of violent revolution he has espoused is passe. He was also endorsing the Soviet via padfica policy of promoting Communism in Latin America through established parties and more or less conventional politics. Fidel made the point poignantly. While in Santiago, he laid wreaths on statues of two Latin American heroes-but he did not go near the one that had been erected for his old revolutionary comrade Che Guevara...