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...STUTZIN President National Committee for the Protection of Fauna and Flora Santiago, Chile...
WHEN Salvador Allende Gossens was elected President of Chile last year, some nervous Americans with investments there reassured themselves that, although Allende was a Marxist, he had always maintained a healthy respect for the due process of law. That assessment has proved correct, if a bit too sanguine. While giving conscientious attention to democracy and legality, Allende has nonetheless been expropriating American holdings almost as fast as he can. In July, he announced the nationalization of the mining interests of Anaconda, Kennecott and Cerro-but only after a constitutional amendment permitting the takeover had been duly introduced, debated and passed...
...important to understand that if the Parti Quebecois (Quebec People's Party-PQ), as presently constituted, were to take power it would be unable to do more than enact minor reforms. In fact, its reforms would have to be at least as radical as those of Allende in Chile, and this would have to come from pressure from the membership itself, in order to concretely solve Quebec's socio-cultural and economic problems...
Pierre Vallieres: It is tragic but most revolutions are isolated. Many are not prepared for the rapid changes which take place and the massive dependence on other foreign powers like the USSR. For example, I cannot consider Chile a free country at the present time, for it is limited by its, lack of interaction with other countries. Thus, it will become freer as other Latin American countries achieve their own liberation...
...elsewhere, the country's living standard has risen to the highest level in South America. Lately, however, a tide of economic nationalism aimed at minimizing outside control of domestic resources has been on the flow in Latin America. Oil investment has been a frequent casualty. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Bolivia have put their oil-producing industries under state ownership. In Peru, the largest oil company has been expropriated. Last week a Colombian congressional committee recommended that the government nationalize foreign oil operations...