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...committed to reform, others have charged that his real aim is to divide the opposition. Indeed, Pinochet has begun to show signs of hardening his attitude toward resigning. "I do not think of leaving the presidency before 1989," he said defiantly last week. Ominously comparing this year's unrest with the last days of Allende, Pinochet added: "I am in a more cautious position, but if they [the opposition] push me, be sure we will get the state of siege. And harsher than before...
...debtor is also its most troubled (see box). Brazil owes some $90 billion and is in its third year of a deep recession. The country is promising to undertake tough austerity measures so that it can begin paying off its debt, but those steps are intensifying already serious social unrest. Last week food riots broke out in Rio de Janeiro. Says one U.S. Treasury official: "Brazil is the key to the entire Latin American debt problem...
CHILE. Economic stagnation has triggered the political unrest that has been sweeping Chile in recent weeks. The country is only slowly recovering from the collapse of world copper prices that drove unemployment to 34.6% last year. The government is trying to reschedule $2.5 billion of its nearly $19 billion in foreign loans...
...fears that unrest in Central America could affect Mexico. I do not subscribe to the domino theory at all. Each society has its own identity and its own political and economic institutions, and the idea of a society's being contaminated ideologically from other sources is incorrect. We are not in danger of being polluted in any manner whatsoever by the Central American political conflicts. We have already had our own revolution, which established a strong political and social infrastructure...
...downturn has stoked social unrest in a country already notorious for its extremes of wealth and poverty. Half the population receives only 12.6% of the national income. By contrast, the richest 10% get 51% of the income. Most laid-off workers are receiving no more than one month's severance pay, and the government provides no unemployment benefits. In April, thousands of laid-off metalworkers shouting, "Queremos empregado!" (We want employment), stormed through the streets of São Paulo, looting shops and supermarkets...