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...seems strange indeed. Chile, after all, is more prosperous and more egalitarian than most of its neighbors. It is also the staunchest democracy in South America, undisturbed by coups d'état since 1932 and led for the past six years by the strenuously reformist government of President Eduardo Frei. Few countries in Latin America have appeared to be so devoted to the democratic process as this nation of 9,000,000. Even its geography helped by isolating it from its neighbors. Stretching more than 2,600 miles down the west coast of South America, Chile has the towering Andes...
...presidential election of Pedro Aguirre Cerda and was rewarded by being appointed Minister of Health at the age of 31. He has run for the presidency in each of the past four elections dating back to 1952. In 1964 he polled 39% of the vote but lost to Eduardo Frei...
...including a few liberal clergymen. Declared the Rev. Hernan Larrain: "There is no incompatibility between being Catholic and voting for a Marxist." Even so, Allende was opposed by more than 60% of the electorate. In the view of many observers, he owes his victory to the fact that President Frei was not permitted by the constitution to succeed himself...
Under Allende, the nationalization of Chile's key industries is regarded as inevitable. A likely first target is Anaconda, which resisted Frei's "Chileanization" program (51% government ownership). "I don't care if there is a big private ice cream company or a big needle factory," Allende says. "That doesn't worry me. I worry about those firms that interfere with the total development of the state." He has promised "compensation," but has given no indication of what that might mean...
...that the Christian Democrats should throw their support this time to Alessandri, the runner-up. He in turn declared last week that if he should be designated President by the Congress, he would resign immediately. That would pave the way for new presidential elections in which the popular Eduardo Frei would be legally permitted to seek reelection. But so far Frei himself has refused to cooperate...