Word: pinochets
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Though the South American countries can thus agree on certain common grievances against the U.S., they have deeper hostilities, between classes and interests, within their own countries. The two can sometimes merge, as in the Chilean leftist underground, where the hated Pinochet junta is seen as a creature of the Pentagon...
President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was wearing a heavy tweed jacket, brown slacks and loafers when we met him at Edificio Diego Portales. He is a ruddy, thickset man with the look of a prosperous Swiss dairy farmer in town for the day. One had half-expected a general's braided visor, the dark glasses and cruel lips seen on all the anti-junta posters from Sweden to Berkeley. "You can see I am not so horrible," said Pinochet, "that I don't eat babies." In an anteroom outside his office, a memorable scene: 22 generals of the Chilean...
...regime says these figures are greatly exaggerated; a few abuses have taken place (Pinochet says twelve officers were recently jailed for mistreating prisoners). In any case, firm measures are needed to deal with the guerrilla threat: look at Argentina, where leftist terrorists are assassinating and kidnaping people every...
...Pinochet and his generals have been pursuing draconian deflationary measures. The rate of inflation has been halved−to an appalling 340% a year. There is hunger in the shantytowns of Santiago, and unemployment is running close...
...junta thinks the U.S. should be grateful for the replacement of Allende by an anti-Communist regime and cannot understand why U.S. Senators, journalists, et al. harp on "human rights." Said Pinochet: "We are better friends to the United States than the United States...