Word: pinochets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation, Helms claimed, "he would send the Ambassador home." After returning to Washington last week, Helms charged that the State Department and Barnes were "trying to appease a bunch of leftists and Communists" by pushing for democratic reforms from the four-man military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet. Chile under Pinochet, said Helms, was moving toward "a stable, productive democracy...
...occasion for this sudden halt in activity was a two-day general strike, called last week by a vast coalition of labor and other opposition groups seeking the ouster of Dictator General Augusto Pinochet. The work stoppage appeared to be one of the most effective antigovernment actions in the 13 years since Pinochet seized power. "The strike was a complete success, even beyond what we expected," said Juan Luis Gonzalez, who heads the Assembly of Civility, the umbrella group of 250 unions, student groups and civic organizations that joined to sponsor the strike...
...Pinochet government insisted that the strike had been ineffective. Nonetheless, authorities filed criminal charges against 17 walkout leaders, including Gonzalez, accusing them of subversion, and cracked down hard on the media. A total of 27 staff members from the opposition magazine Analisis were charged with antigovernment activities, and could face prison terms if convicted. Four independent radio stations, one of them run by the Roman Catholic Church, were ordered to halt news broadcasts during the protests. Strike organizers were especially encouraged by the participation of truckers. In 1973 a crippling work stoppage by drivers against the Marxist-oriented government...
That show of force last week, ostensibly to discourage a planned union protest, was the latest step in a month-old campaign by Pinochet to intimidate his burgeoning opposition, which now ranges from Communists to the Roman Catholic Church to members of his own junta. Yet far from smoothing the ! transition to democracy, Pinochet seems intent on proving at whatever cost that the lessons of the Philippines do not apply to Chile. In the process, critics charge, he is further polarizing Chilean society. Says Gabriel Valdes, leader of the moderate Christian Democratic Party: "Pinochet is a good machine for producing...
...Pinochet, who came to power in a 1973 coup, has insisted on labeling his political opponents as Marxists or Marxist influenced. A poll released last week by the Santiago-based Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences disclosed that only 13% of Chileans questioned consider themselves "leftists," but fully 73% agree there should be "radical changes" in Chile's government. Such changes are unlikely until at least 1989, when Pinochet's 1980 constitution calls for the four-man military junta to choose a candidate for President, subject to public approval in a yes-or-no referendum. The current unrest, however...