Word: frei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Javits, Peru's President Belaúnde, Chile's Frei and Argentina's Illia were receptive to his common-market concept, even if he met more hesitancy than hurrahs from many business leaders. Javits has succeeded before in pressing through unlikely schemes for Latin America. It was he who conceived ADELA (the Atlantic Community Development Group for Latin America), an altruistic investment organization whose backers include many of the most prestigious names in European, Japanese and U.S. business. So far, in less than two years of operation, ADELA has committed $22 million to 27 privately...
...carabineros had fired into a crowd of rioting "wildcat" strikers at El Salvador's copper mine, killing eight and wounding 35. The protesting general strike was one of a series called by the Frente de Acclon Popular (FRAP), Chile's Socialist-Communist opposition to Christian Democrat President Frei...
FRAP was obviously working along the guidelines of the recent Tri-Continental Conference in Havana, which recommended stepped-up labor trouble as a means to Red takeover. Since January, strikes in the Chilean copper mines have cost Frei's government $60 million, and the mild-mannered President got tough. Going before the nation on radio and television, he angrily declared that FRAP was out to "economically paralyze the nation. We are witnessing a premeditated act of subversion...
...Stranglehold. Frei also got unexpected-and unwitting-help from Fidel Castro. After the shooting at El Salvador, Fidel took to Havana radio to attack Chile's President as "a coward and reactionary" who had "promised revolution without blood but has given only blood without revolution." Castro's castigations struck many Chileans as an outsider's interference in domestic problems, and coupled with Frei's television address helped to undercut support for the FRAP-led general strike...
...Still, Frei has been unable during his 17-month tour in office to translate his 53% electoral mandate into significant reforms. Though his Christian Democrats dominate the House of Deputies, FRAP-in combination with the Radicals-holds the upper hand in the Senate and has emasculated Frei's copper program. This scheme aims to make Chile the world's No. 1 copper producer and earn an additional $300 million in foreign exchange to finance Frei's sweeping proposals for land reform-which themselves are stymied in the legislature. Heartened by a recent by-election victory in Valparaiso...