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...most Spanish-speaking peoples, tinto is red wine; to Colombians, it is a tiny cup of black coffee-and a social institution that ranks with the Englishman's tea, the Argentine's mate and the Norteamericano's cocktails. Over their four or five daily tintos in drab little cafes (many cater exclusively to lawyers, bullfight fans, et al.), Colombians make & break governments, trade plantations and gold mines, brood about mistresses and write poems...
President Pedro Agnirre Cerda is popularly known as Don Tinto because of the excellent red wine of the vineyards that made him rich. Rich President Aguirre's Popular Front Government reduced the price of bread from 2.20 pesos (11?) to 1.70 (9?) and the price of some meats by 40%, made available to workers who had never tasted milk 12,000 litres a day at 80 centavos a litre, returned from Government-owned pawnshops some 9,000,000 pesos worth of hocked tools and clothing. "Don Tinto," says the poor man of Chile, "es un muy buen hombre" (TIME...
...full text of the article: "For weeks the head of America's only Popular Front Government, Chile's President Pedro ('Don Tinto') Aguirre Cerda, has been on an uneasy seat in Santiago's grey, pillared Moneda Palace. Struggling for power have been members of the President's own Radical Party, Communists, Rightists, Germanophile Army officers...
...This week his journalistic enemy, El Impartial, called for a medical bulletin to allay 'public anxiety.' Don Tinto issued a political bulletin. He announced his temporary retirement on account of bronchitis and grippe, by law turned over his powers to Minister of the Interior Mendez...
Last week, however, both the President and the Vice President made slight gains. Don Tinto, the doctors said, had no complications. Don Gerónimo, a celebrated conciliator, had compromised some confidence into the Popular Front...