Word: toh
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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Currently, the opposition parties, which control a substantial majority in Chile's Chamber of Deputies, are trying to embarrass Allende by impeaching his most trusted Cabinet member, Socialist Interior Minister José Tohá. The move was transparently political, since even opposition members concede that Tohá is an effective and capable minister. He was formally accused by Christian Democratic Deputies and Nationalists, however, of having failed to control armed guerrilla groups of both the right and the left -particularly those leftists who had helped peasants make unauthorized land seizures-and a host of other, petty "crimes...
...weeks ago, the Chamber of Deputies approved the impeachment proceedings, thereby requiring the Senate-in which the opposition has a majority of one-to sit in judgment on Tohá. Under the Chilean constitution, a Cabinet officer faced with impeachment proceedings is automatically suspended from his post. Furious, Allende challenged the Chamber by making Tohá the acting Defense Minister and giving his old portfolio to Defense Minister Alejandro Ríos Valdivia, a moderate leftist. The opposition immediately complained that Allende was illegally circumventing the constitution...