Word: mercurio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Initially, I felt that it was a little bizarre. The main problem with this is that people find it morbid that the university is investing in the student's death," said freshperson Matthew G. Mercurio. But, he added, "What you have to realize is that this is what insurance companies do everyday...
...NEWSSTANDS four opposition magazines and L'Humanite, the French Communist paper, were available along with El Mercurio, the official newspaper. This past year, demonstrations of nonviolent opposition to the junta began on campuses and spread through the city. Our friends described to us the moving spectacle of the people marching down the Alameda, open palms raised to show "Our hands are clean," as black helicopters--no doubt American-made--circled just feet overhead. But the government did not halt the protests...
...government tried to blame "the Marxist left and foreign intervention" for the bloodshed. But even well-known supporters of the regime disagreed. The government, declared the respected conservative daily El Mercurio, "should strengthen itself by regaining the confidence of those who, ten years ago, massively demanded the intervention of the armed forces." There was no sign that Pinochet was listening. At week's end Chilean police launched a series of raids in Santiago, arresting about 1,000 people...
...called loyal to those things to which American universities are loyal. Harberger's friends are loyal to institutionalized barbarianism. They are loyal to a clique of bloody-minded military officers which mounted an horrific reign of terror against the Chilean people (in summer 1973, the conservative Chilean daily El Mercurio called for an "Indonesian solution" to Chile's political conflicts--that is very nearly what Chile got), and which today rules without the slightest regard for the institutional and legal safeguards of civilized and liberal nations. This clique even sent its secret police in September 1976 to Washington...
...praising the Pinochet regime's economic policies, Harberger strengthened the government's reputation with foreign credit institutions and foreign investors, for whom the word of the chairman of the economics department at a very prestigious American university carried great weight. On each trip of Chile, Chilean newspapers--notably EL Mercurio--ran huge spreads on what the American economist said...