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...Chile, the government of President Eduardo Frei Montalva came to terms, after weeks of negotiations, with the U.S.-owned Anaconda Company. Chile will buy 51% control of the giant copper interests of the company (see BUSINESS). It was a victory for the moderate Frei; Chile's more militant nationalists had agitated for outright expropriation of Anaconda...
...huge Chuquicamata and El Salvador mines, the source of 61% of the company's annual production and half of its earnings. Since then, the Latin American political winds have shifted. Last week Anaconda management decided that paid-for nationalization of the two mines, offered by moderate President Eduardo Frei, was better than the outright expropriation that Chilean leftists were demanding...
...Frei seemed to have made everybody more or less happy, but he had not reckoned on price increases that resulted from rising world demand for copper. When Frei worked out his plan, copper had been averaging about 290 a pound; last week on the London Metal Exchange it sold for 690. Although the rise benefits both Chile and its U.S. partners, many Chileans are displeased...
Charging that fatter U.S. profits from Chilean copper are "immoral," leftists renewed their demand for outright nationalization. Other Chileans complained that Anaconda is paying for the Exotica mine out of its windfall profits rather than by investing more U.S. dollars. Although Frei is trying to strengthen his fellow Christian Democrats before the 1970 elections, he is sticking to a moderate position. This month, he demanded a 51% share of Anaconda's Chuquicamata and El Salvador mines and an increase in the company's taxes. Later, he will also seek a larger share of profits from Kennecott and Cerro...
Whipping Up Emotions. Frei wants negotiation instead of legislation; Chile is unable to run the mines on its own and depends on copper for most of its foreign exchange. Still, rightists and Communists, as well as leftists within Frei's party, are preparing nationalization bills. Their demands are whipping up public emotion and may force greater concessions from Anaconda than those the company refused...