Word: santiagos
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...eagle is the U.S. The verse is part of a protest song that is popular in the cafés and boîtes of Santiago. In the dim light of those peñas folklóricas, as they are known, Chilean students representing every shade of the leftist spectrum?from Christian Democrat to anarchic urban terrorist?gather to sing their praise of Fidel Castro's Cuba and their passionate hatred of the local oligarchy...
...that time, the vital question will become what sort of Marxist President Allende will choose to be. The frightening fact is that Chileans have no idea. "It could be a beautiful experiment in democracy," says a Santiago conservative, "or it could be a concentration camp...
...behind will be the Kennecott Copper Corp., with an $80 million interest in El Teniente, the world's largest underground copper mine; Cerro Corp., with $15 million in copper investments; and ITT, with $200 million or more in the Chilean telephone system, a cable company and two Santiago hotels. Others are the Dow Chemical Co., Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., the General Tire and Rubber Co. and North American Rockwell Corp. The pace of Allende's actions will also depend on the state of the economy. "The more his back is to the wall," says one American economist...
Direct intervention, on the order of the Dominican Republic operation of 1965, would seriously undermine the U.S.'s already low prestige in the hemisphere. In any case, it would probably be ruled out by geography. Santiago is 5,000 air miles from Washington; the country as a whole is cordoned off from the world by the Andes on one side and the Pacific on the other. Direct action is out, and the U.S. has little indirect leverage to apply. Cut off aid? This year's total, $2,500,000 in loans, would scarcely be missed. Tighten the economic...
...walls of the tiny study in his modest home in Santiago's patrician Providencia district, Dr. Salvador Allende has hung the pictures of his revolutionary heroes. There, last week, surrounded by photographs of Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara-as well as one of Eleanor Roosevelt-Allende talked with TIME Correspondent David...