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Chile's homely little President Pedro Aguirre Cerda is popularly known as Don Tinto because of the excellent red wine of the vineyards that made him rich...
...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...
Backbone of Don Tinto's Popular Front is the Radical Party of conservative-minded Senator Florencio Duran. No more radical than Daladier's Radical Socialists in France, Duran's Party is a conglomeration of big & little businessmen, professionals and skilled workmen. They represent the aspirations of the Chilean bourgeoisie to develop their own industry and commerce, to get a share of the business now in the hands of foreign capital, to break up the semi-feudalism of agriculture. Their struggle against reaction led to their alliance with Chile's Socialists and Communists to elect Don Tinto...
...months of power, Don Tinto's Popular Front has coped with three Cabinet crises, one revolution and an earthquake. The revolution and at least one of the Cabinet crises were precipitated by the Rightist opposition. Last week Don Tinto had to cope with another Cabinet crisis. This time it was precipitated by the conservative wing of his own Party and Leader Florencio Duran, whom many not so conservative Chileans suspect of being on more than speaking terms with Rightist ex-President Arturo Alessandri...
Three of Don Tinto's Cabinet Ministers who are loyal to the Popular Front have been involved in recent scandals. An investigating committee found fraud in the entry of Jewish refugees and held Abraham Ortega's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible. Arturo Olavarria's Ministry of Agriculture let an Agricultural Export Board buy race-track stock for the purpose of improving animal husbandry. And Minister of Education Rudecindo Ortega got himself mixed up in a row between Radicals and Socialists at a professors-&-teachers convention last month. These scandals gave Radical Leader Durán his opportunity...