Word: videla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiery President Gabriel González Videla, who as senator used to throw inkwells at congressional foes, last week threw the whole desk at his onetime Communist friends. In so doing, he gave the New World's loudest answer to the Communist manifesto, issued in Poland last fortnight (see INTERNATIONAL...
When Communist-led miners struck last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 13), González Videla sensed a Red plot to disrupt his country's economy. Announcement of the rebirth of the Comintern, the day after the strike began, set off an explosion...
Because hard-pressed Chile needed Lota's coal to keep railroads and power plants going, President Gabriel González Videla sent troops to Lota, used his emergency powers (TIME, Sept. 1) to order strikers back to the mines, offered a 40% wage increase. At week's end, the miners still stood fast...
Latin reaction was also mixed. Big countries were generally for it, though only Argentina, Venezuela and a few others had money enough to pay for what they would get. Chile's President Gabriel González Videla, against the idea last year, changed his mind and came out for the bill in Rio. The little countries were not so sure. Said a Costa Rican: "We have an army of about 100 men. If we get lots of arms and equipment, we'll find ourselves with a real army, a burden on the treasury, with a militarist outlook that...
Chile's old guard had long regarded ever-smiling President Gabriel Gonzÿlez Videla as a playboy. They made pointed remarks about his summer custom of riding a bicycle in shorts, sniggered discreetly when he tumbled into the river while boating. But last week the tune changed. Even rightist papers ran friendly stories, and printed such folksy notes as an item regarding his visit to the movies with his handsome, blonde wife Rosa and teen-age daughters Silvia and Rosa. The reason for this new friendliness: Gonzÿlez had turned his back on the Communists...