Word: santiagos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Filipinos are not, typically, poor. Ambrocio Santiago will soon have the $100,000 proceeds from selling his house back in the town of General Trias. A good many of the Filipinos are medical professionals, drawn by U.S. salaries and by the provision of the 1965 immigration law that gives preference to the highly skilled. Dr. Federico Quevedo, founder of L.A.'s Confederation of Philippine-United States Organizations, is an obstetrician. Ophthalmologist Lani Quevedo, his wife, is the daughter of a doctor and a pharmacist. "The new immigration laws," explains Federico Quevedo, "take connections and credentials and money...
...military regime of Augusto Pinochet 9½ years ago. It began last Wednesday as a peaceful Day of Protest over the country's desperate economic straits and quickly flared into widespread rioting. Three hundred police and militia fought about 1,500 protesters for control of downtown Santiago. By Thursday authorities had finally restored order, but at a tragic price: two civilians had been killed, 150 protesters were injured and 600 arrested...
Trouble had been brewing for weeks. Earlier this month students and workers led a march in Santiago that erupted into rioting. The powerful 27,000-member National Conference of Copper Workers called for a national strike. Other unions, arguing that there was not adequate organization for the work stoppage, resisted such precipitous action. Instead, the opposing sides called for a boycott of schools and a traffic slowdown...
...first it seemed that restraint might prevail. But when 200 students tried to occupy the library at the University of Chile, in the eastern part of Santiago, 50 police attacked with tear gas, brutally clubbing the protesters for nearly two hours. Then truncheon-wielding guards charged into an overflow crowd of dissident lawyers and students gathered to support the workers; about 15 were injured...
...declared the respected conservative daily El Mercurio, "should strengthen itself by regaining the confidence of those who, ten years ago, massively demanded the intervention of the armed forces." There was no sign that Pinochet was listening. At week's end Chilean police launched a series of raids in Santiago, arresting about 1,000 people...