Word: pinochets
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From these labs the tendrils of the traffic have reached into Nicaragua and Paraguay, while continuing to flourish in Mexico and the Caribbean. The cocaine business has, in fact, drawn its net around every country in South America except the tightly policed dictatorship of Chilean President Augusto Pinochet. "The drug trade is like a water balloon," says one frustrated U.S. official in Colombia. "You step on it in one place, and it squeezes out the side of your foot...
There is a lot of political art around in America today, but few political artists of real weight. When bad art is busy defending the exploited, does it place one with Pinochet to speak of taste? Most political artists offer values that seem hardly more nuanced than the New Masses cartoons of the 1930s: Manichaean Punch-and-Judy shows of good and evil, projecting ideological stereotypes onto schematically experienced realities. But one striking exception is Leon Golub...
Thus did the regime of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte prepare for a planned two-day protest against the Chilean President's rule, which was toughened by a state of siege declared on Nov. 6. The display of weaponry exceeded the response to previous street demonstrations, which have cost the lives of at least 110 civilians in the past 18 months. Last week's show of muscle was preceded by a campaign of intimidation at nearly every civilian level. Police made scores of arrests of leftist political and labor leaders. A government spokesman informed foreign newsmen that their credentials...
...whole, the scare tactics proved highly effective. Most shops and schools in the capital's restive slums remained open, a change from previous protest demonstrations. University students held anti-Pinochet demonstrations on several campuses, but the crowds were small by past standards. Several leaders of the five-party Alianza Democratica, the main opposition group, did not endorse the protest for fear of running afoul of the siege order's ban on public gatherings; nonetheless, about ten Alianza leaders lined up in front of Santiago's cathedral and sang the national anthem. As they dispersed, a water cannon...
...before being released in response to pleas from Santiago Archbishop Juan Francisco Fresno Larraín. A British subject who worked as the United Press International correspondent in Santiago, Anthony Boadle, was summarily deported for filing a report that three deaths had occurred during rioting (in fact, none had). Pinochet, who has refused widespread demands that he relinquish power to a democratically elected government, spent the protest days away from the capital, touring the desert country in the north. Speaking to a crowd in Iquique, he said, "You have the fortune to live in an atmosphere of tranquillity, far from...