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...great man, Salvador Allende Gossens. Allende was not the only person who died when Chile's upper classes decided that democracy couldn't extend to working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power over the places where they worked--over their...
...great man, Salvador Allende Gossens. Allende was not the only person who died when Chile's upper classes decided that democracy couldn't extend to working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power over the places where they worked--over their...
...twin-engine Fairchild F227 chartered from the Uruguayan air force took off from Montevideo carrying an amateur rugby team and a planeload of friends and supporters to Santiago, Chile. Most never completed their journey. The plane slammed into a mountainside at an altitude of more than 11,000 ft. Of the 45 people on board, only 32, some critically injured, were alive the next morning...
...second Chile is the shadow country in which people who talk too much or ask too many questions simply disappear. Santiago, once a lively capital, is curiously silent these days. Serious matters such as politics and high prices are never discussed on the telephone. Early this year a military patrol passing through a field near the capital asked a question of a campesino. The farmer touched his cap and answered, "Si, señor." He should have said, "Si, Señor Comandante." He was arrested for lack of respect to the army and, according to a lawyer familiar with...
...ministers, have not been tortured. But they have been put on a strict and often ruinous military regimen. For many, the hard work and meager diet of bread and beans have proved merciless. After several months on Dawson Island, Allende's Foreign Minister, Clodomiro Almeyda, was brought to Santiago wearing tattered clothing and in precarious health. In February, former Minister of Interior and Defense José Tohá González committed suicide, according to the government. When brought from Dawson, the 6-ft. 4-in. Tohá weighed only...