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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...
...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...
Chile's able President Eduardo Frei has one of the most ambitious and soundly reasoned development programs in LatinAmerica−if he can ever get started. Nature seems to be conspiring against him. Last March, after only five months in office, Frei faced a major rebuilding program when an earthquake ravaged central Chile, killing 210 people, leaving some 18,000 homeless, and causing damage amounting to $80 million. Last week a saddened Frei again toured disaster-strewn streets, taking the measure of the worst winter in modern memory...
...midweek the sun finally broke through the clouds over Santiago, and the worst seemed over at last. President Frei gratefully acknowledged emergency aid from the U.S. and other countries, and already a bootstrap effort had begun. All over Santiago last week, boy scouts and students were collecting money and clothing; the tags they wore on their coats read: "Together we shall rebuild Chile...