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...David Lautaro Paredes...
...idealistic young politician named Aguirre (Lautaro Murua) becomes the agent of sin. He delivers an emotional speech on freedom of the press, then learns from a sneering member of the opposition that his own father protected his fortune by silencing newspapers that opposed him. Sickened by the revelation, he nevertheless challenges his opponent to a duel, which is to take place at the estate of Ana's father, an aristocrat who reveres honor and gloats over death. On the night before the duel, Aguirre, overcome by his sudden knowledge of meaninglessness, seduces Ana. She longs...
...Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, editor of the small bi-weekly Economista, noisily called attention to Easter Island, Chile's Polynesian possession. This year, when the Angamos made the annual voyage 1,900 miles west from Valparaiso bearing supplies and several officials, some Santiago newsmen went along. What they later told of the island's wonders, and its potentialities for growing sugar, pineapples and other tropical produce, roused Editor Ojeda to some of his hottest editorials...
...anew the old superstition that disasters run in cycles of three. Two other Chilean ships had been plagued by mysterious fires in recent weeks. In Valparaiso, stevedores loading the merchantman Naguilan had discovered a suspicious blaze in the ship's hold. Off the Peruvian coast, the square-rigged Lautaro, one of the world's largest sailing vessels and pride of the Chilean navy, exploded and sank with another cargo of war-scarce nitrate; 19 midshipmen burned to death or drowned...
...methods in the persons of the four potent Brothers Guggenheim. Originally focused on Chile by copper, their gaze wandered in 1924 to nitrates. Their key company, Anglo- Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corp., has bulked larger and larger in the industry. Last fall it clinched its leadership by buying control of Lautaro Nitrate Co. Ltd., biggest producer of Chilean nitrate. Even before that, however, the Guggenheims had started their Oficina Maria Elena Plant working in 1926 with the epochal Guggenheim Process...
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