Word: frei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billed as a "general strike"-a major protest against the moderate government of Chilean President Eduardo Frei. But when it came off last week, it proved a dud. Only 35,000 workers stayed away from their jobs, and the climactic "rally" in Santiago's Plaza Artesanos drew a skimpy crowd. Miners in helmets and packs marched listlessly to a drum and bugle corps; a few busloads of young girls chanted: "If the government continues like this, we will cut off its nose." Not even chunky Communist Councilwoman Mireya Baltra, berating the "imperialists" between swigs from a bottle of Pepsi...
Chile's rugged, reformist Christian Democratic President Eduardo Frei is nothing if not ambitious. Not only has he promised to end Chile's spiraling inflation and redistribute the land-but he has challenged an even more sacred institution: the three-hour lunch hour, with its hallowed tradition of siesta...
...returning for another three hours of work in the late afternoon. In modern times, however, workers in downtown Santiago, Valparaiso and Concepción, many of whom live six or seven miles from their jobs, have spent most of their lunchtime stalled on buses in traffic jams. So when Frei's government, seeking to boost efficiency and save electricity, last year asked the University of Chile to make a survey, results showed 94.6% favoring an uninterrupted working day, with only 4.5% opposed to the idea...
...back where it started as a one-crop sugar producer. Gone is the vision of leading a vast Latin American popular revolution; that revolution is being ably led by the democratic left of Peru's Fernando Belaunde Terry, Venezuela's Raul Leoni and Chile's Eduardo Frei-while Castro's once-great mass appeal has faded. Gone is the assurance of being the greatest Cuban national hero since Liberator Jose Marti; Cuba today is populated by a sullen, lifeless people who dream their own dreams-of fleeing to somewhere else, as they say, "on the other...
...hard to separate the genuine reformers from the Communists. And there are still, as Fulbright says, Latin Americans who cry Communism to resist change. But the U.S. has found plenty of anti-Communists to back-anti-Communists who are also reformers. It wholeheartedly supports Chile's President Eduardo Frei, who beat a Marxist to win office. It has committed $119 million to help Peru's Fernando Belaúnde Terry wage a social revolution that will aid millions of backlands Indians...