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Much of the increasing attention paid to america latino stems, no doubt, from the experiment in democratic socialism conducted in Chile by President Salvador Allende. But interest runs much deeper than that as more and more people are studying Spanish and general Latin American history. A new generation of American wanderers, turning to the south to expend their wanderlust in place of the traditional Europe, travel not only to Santiago but also to Quito and Lima, to the Brazilian northwest and the Andean highlands. American students talk not only of Allende but also of Peron and Echevarria...
...this sense, of a future blossoming from the seeds of a past, that the experiment of Chile has so firmly grasped the minds of people in the Western world. Workers accustomed to slaving in factories for subsistence-level wages seized control of their places of work and planned common ownership. Field laborers in the rural areas forced their way onto large plantations and marked off plots of land they could cultivate themselves. And, in the slums surrounding Santiago, Chileans took a new pride in their past, setting up schools and community centers to make their children aware of their cultural...
...Chile has now fallen victim to a further swing of the pendulum ever-moving between past and future. Those who would use the past to create a new future have temporarily succumbed to the indiscriminate forces of the modern age. But the hope of Chile, in its fading from reality into history and from life into literature, becomes a new piece in a puzzle perpetually being pieced together. While in Europe and the U.S. the horizon is circumscribed by the steel and concrete of ever-rising skyscrapers, in Latin America the vistas for the future are unlimited. There the mills...
...Senate Committee's concern with the moral implications of U.S. aid to Chile was prefaced by a State Department controversy two weeks ago in which Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 rebuked the U.S. ambassador to Chile, David H. Popper, for discussing "unrelated issues such as human rights and military aid in high level diplomatic talks...
...moral perspective of U.S. foreign aid to Chile is not unique. It is reflected in U.S. support of dictatorial regimes the world over, from Brazil to South Vietnam. However, the concern for human rights shown by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Ambassador Popper is unique. As such it should be supported and echoed by Americans of all political persuasions who feel that torture and political imprisonment are wrong. It is time the U.S. stopped supporting regimes that must torture and murder to sustain themselves. Chile is a good place to start. The Congress should reject last week's vote...