Word: siglo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allende is a Marxist who has sought to work through the constitutional framework, and he has promised to "guarantee democratic rights and respect individual freedoms" (see box). But he has also vowed to expropriate the right-wing newspaper El Mercurio, leading Chileans to speculate cynically that El Siglo, the Communist party organ, will soon become the best-read paper in the country, and, they say "it will be printed on better presses too-Mercurio's." The Moscow-aligned Communists, a minority partner in Allende's Popular Front coalition, will probably play a disproportionately important role...