Word: chiles
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...upper class and segments of the middle classes have always strenuously opposed Allende's program of social justice and wealth and power redistribution. The greatest threat to civil order in Chile clearly comes from the right...
...Chile. Chilean truck owners and the United States's own International Brotherhood of Teamsters seem to have much in common. While the Teamsters attempt to eradicate the struggling United Farm Workers in California, their compatriots in Chile are attempting to reverse the course of Chile's socialist revolution...
Last year ITT's power and presumptuousness came to light with disclosures that it stood ready to underwrite with cash any efforts the CIA might be considering to prevent the election of Salvador Allende, Chile's Marxist President. At home-if such a cozy term can be used for a multinational-ITT provided an early trickle to the Watergate. ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard's secret memo found its way into Jack Anderson's column, where it told of a $400,000 pledge for the 1972 Republican Convention. All this occurred shortly before the Justice Department settled...
Hardly. The rich and the right just want their own cut of the take. In neighboring Chile, for example, all parties voted for companero President Allende's expropriation of the American copper interests-the right, because it hopes to control the mines itself; the left, because it wants the Chilean people to guide production and distribution...
...weeks crowds of pro-and anti-Allende supporters had surged through Santiago's streets. Demands had been made for Allende's impeachment; others called for civil war. Doctors, dentists and nurses went on strike, protesting Chile's uncontrollable inflation, which has soared 235% in the past year. They joined thousands of copper workers, who have shut down Chile's largest copper mines and paralyzed the nation's economy, which gets 80% of its foreign exchange from copper...