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Once calm is restored, the junta plans to give Chile a new constitution that will prevent any Marxist returning to power. As General Leigh put it, "we want a constitution that gives participation to a11 Chileans, one that embraces the workers, the peasants, the gremios and women. We want national participation." Chances are the kind of constitution the junta members have in mind is similar to the one introduced by the military dictators of Brazil. It vests vast power in a President, who in recent years has been appointed by the general staff rather than elected. When "national security...
After three weeks of heavyhanded military rule, some Chileans who at first supported the coup were beginning to have second thoughts. Leaders of the moderate Christian Democrat Party, stung because they had been unexpectedly suppressed when the Socialists and Communists were banned, advised their members to serve the junta only as "technicians." The new government, however, appeared to have general support from the middle and upper classes. The truckers, whose 45-day strike was partly responsible for instigating the coup, were on the road again. "Those trucks started up out of pure joy," said one trucker. Copper mines, plagued...
There would be no state funeral, announced the ruling military junta, which confined itself to a restrained statement of condolence. Nonetheless, Pablo Neruda, the protean Chilean poet and Nobel laureate who died at the age of 69 last week, was given an emotional and stirring farewell...
Hundreds of mourners appeared at the Communist poet's home in Santiago for the funeral procession to the capital's General Cemetery. In bold defiance of the junta's anti-Marxist campaign and in obvious disregard for their own liberty, they chanted leftist slogans as the cortege marched slowly to the mausoleum. Softly at first, then louder and louder, they sang the Internationale...
...much reprinted poem called The Satraps, said to have been written by Neruda shortly before the coup, was released by a Cuban news agency staffer in Buenos Aires. The verse, which describes President Nixon and Junta Leader Augusto Pinochet as "hyenas ravening/ Our history," is a hoax. Apparently Buenos Aires leftists "updated" a Neruda poem from the 1950s, changing the names of Latin American Dictators Trujillo, Somoza and Carias to Nixon, Frei (Allende's predecessor as president) and Pinochet...