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OPPOSITION to Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity government began to form even before he took office in November 1970. Rich businessmen began to send capital out of the country and wealthy landowners began to gird themselves for the expected expropriations...
...junta, at a press conference last week. It was not true, Leigh insisted, that he and his fellow generals were fascists, as their enemies had charged. Instead, he claimed, the junta was merely taking temporary measures to rid the country of the Marxist disease spread by the late President Salvador Allende Gossens. The military's goal was to achieve "reconstruction" and "normalcy." Once these were reached, said Leigh, the generals would return to barracks...
Some shouted "Neruda y Allende, un solo combatiente [Neruda and Allende, one fighter]!" As the coffin was carried into the crypt, one old woman sobbed: "We are burying Salvador Allende...
...move marks the spread of a new strategy by which multinational companies hope to counter the threat of expropriation: the international legal blockade. Kennecott Copper Corp. had some success with the approach last fall, after the Chilean government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens had expropriated its huge El Teniente mine without compensation. Kennecott got courts in France, Italy, Germany and Sweden to hold up payments by European purchasers for four separate shipments of copper from El Teniente, contending that the copper was in effect stolen property. The shutoff of European markets for the copper probably helped to build economic...
...years, with Fidel Castro, I was a friend of comandante Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He gave me the second copy of his book Guerrilla War, the first one was given to Fidel. I was in Cuba when it appeared, and in the dedication, he wrote the following. "To Salvador Allende, who by other means tries to obtain the same ends. If comandante Guevara signed the dedication in this way, it is because he was a man of broad spirit who understood that every nation has its own reality; that there is no recipe to make revolutions. And in addition, the theoreticians...