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President Pedro Agnirre Cerda is popularly known as Don Tinto because of the excellent red wine of the vineyards that made him rich. Rich President Aguirre's Popular Front Government reduced the price of bread from 2.20 pesos (11?) to 1.70 (9?) and the price of some meats by 40%, made available to workers who had never tasted milk 12,000 litres a day at 80 centavos a litre, returned from Government-owned pawnshops some 9,000,000 pesos worth of hocked tools and clothing. "Don Tinto," says the poor man of Chile, "es un muy buen hombre" (TIME...
President Pedro Aguirre Cerda of Chile was a very sick man last week. His ruddy face now had the flush of fever. As he lay in his bed in the Moneda Palace, the daily bulletins about his health spoke always of his condition, never mentioned the disease from which Don Tinto was suffering. But three of the four doctors attending him were specialists in tuberculosis...
...Acting President Geronimo Mendez had ?n important visitor. Out of a borrowed Lufthansa plane at Santiago airport one day last week stepped Brazil's smart, dapper Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, all primed to talk commercial treaties. He had left Rio expecting to confer with President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, had learned of Don Tinto's temporary retirement (TIME, Nov. 17) while en route...
...weeks the head of America's only Popular Front Government, Chile's President Pedro ("Don Tinto") Aguirre Cerda, has been on an uneasy seat in Santiago's grey, pillared Moneda Palace. Struggling for power have been members of the President's own Radical Party, Communists, Rightists, Germanophile Army officers...
Chile has one of the world's few remaining popular-front Governments. Hence President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, an affable and astute politician, has "one of the most ticklish jobs in the Americas." His hobby is public health and "even his small talk was about diseases." He is a great admirer of President Roosevelt. The Left calls Aguirre Cerda a "bourgeois," the Right calls him "that man," other names that Author Gunther could not print...