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...greatly to ending Cuba's ten-year isolation from most of the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Mexico, Argentina and Peru, the Foreign Ministers in Washington last week reached a "consensus" that Cuba should be invited to their gathering next March in Buenos Aires. Several countries, including Chile, opposed the invitation, but even such strongly anti-Communist representatives as Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio Azeredo da Silveira voiced no objection. Mexico's Foreign Minister Emilio O. Rabasa announced that Castro has already agreed in principle to such a meeting...
...Salvador Allende Gossens, a four-man military junta headed by Army General Augusta Pinochet Ugarte has ruthlessly eliminated leftists (real and suspect), suspended all political activity, and reversed many of the socialistic moves undertaken during Allende's presidency. But the junta is also beginning to find many of Chile's problems difficult and intractable. TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch reports...
...Chile is two countries today. There is the Chile you can see-the Chile in which newspapers touch on nothing more serious than garbage disposal -and the Chile that is both more shadowy and more real. In official Chile the streets are clean, the stores are full, and copper miners are working hard to boost production. In this Chile some government offices have signs saying, "Be brief. I have three years to make...
...second Chile is the shadow country in which people who talk too much or ask too many questions simply disappear. Santiago, once a lively capital, is curiously silent these days. Serious matters such as politics and high prices are never discussed on the telephone. Early this year a military patrol passing through a field near the capital asked a question of a campesino. The farmer touched his cap and answered, "Si, señor." He should have said, "Si, Señor Comandante." He was arrested for lack of respect to the army and, according to a lawyer familiar with...
...gaining independence involve warfare as sustained and as all-encompassing as the war that swept Indochina. And torture of political prisoners, even U.S.-financed torture, isn't uncommon enough to cause much of a stir. It goes on more or less indiscriminately and without potent opposition (from Greece to Chile, where the followers of Guru Maharaj Ji joined the list of proscribed last week...