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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long and mostly inglorious history of meddling in the internal affairs of Latin American nations. Thus it came as no surprise to Washington that the Chilean junta's overthrow of President Salvador Allende sparked a flurry of angry charges that either the CIA or the White House had somehow engineered the coup. At a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council called by Cuba to protest attacks by Chilean troops on its embassy in Santiago during the coup, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcón y Quesada charged: "The trail of blood spilled in Chile leads directly...
...United States has acted once again to undermine the very principles it purports to uphold, and Chile has been plunged into the darkness of military dictatorship. A beacon of hope for the rest of Latin America has been extinguished. For the moment, we must try to pressure the U.S. government to stop the killing. For the future, we must hope that somehow the Left can regroup and that socialism will return to Chile. And we must strive to insure that in the future the American government does not kill any more dreams...
...appeal was made in a statement sent to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50; Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations; representatives of the two Houses of Congress; and two national newspapers by the Committee on Latin American Studies at Harvard...
John Womack Jr. '59, professor of History and chairman of the Committee on Latin American Studies, said yesterday that the purpose of the appeal is to delay and limit official American and worldwide support for the forces in power in Chile...
Some of the strongest opposition came from Chilean women, perhaps the most liberated in Latin America. As occasional meatless days became regular meatless weeks, they organized a "March of the Empty Pots" in 1971 to dramatize the rising cost and increasing shortages of food. The sound of spoons banging against empty pots became a symbolic klaxon of protest. The signal would suddenly begin in one quarter of Santiago and ripple all across the city, to the chagrin of the government. Two weeks ago, after Allende's supporters staged a massive rally in Plaza de la Constituci...