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...Latin American Presidents ever took office amid such high hopes. Chile's Eduardo Frei rolled up the biggest plurality in his country's history (56%), his Christian Democrats became the first government party since 1851 to win a majority in the House of Deputies, and the party went on to triple its membership in the Senate. But a mandate is one thing, politics another. Last week-after two years of long, hard talking-Frei's two key reform bills were finally approaching reality...
...Under the program, the government will acquire a 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two other new mining ventures, including one that will expand operations at Chuquicamata, which is already the world's largest open-pit copper mine. Ultimately, Chile hopes to double production by 1970 to 1,200,000 tons a year and bring in an additional $300 million in foreign exchange...
...Edge. What held up Frei's program was his nettlesome opposition in the Senate, where Chile's Socialist-Communist Frente de Action Popular
View from Abroad. Frei wants his reforms for Chile, but he also wants them for the benefit of Latin America, which increasingly looks to the tall, scholarly visionary as a new leader of the Democratic left and a new force that could help pull the Southern Hemisphere tighter together. Frei is already moving in that direction. He is a staunch booster of economic integration. He was among the first to propose a hemispheric summit conference, now tentatively scheduled for next spring. "We have a commitment in Latin America," Frei says. "This makes us proud and binds...
...other things to discuss as well. Landlocked Bolivia is bickering with neighboring Chile, and therefore wants a new route to the Pacific, which Peru could provide. In turn, Peru's military, miffed about a call for Latin American disarmament by the Presidents of Chile and Colombia, wants closer ties with Bolivia's ex-Air Force General Barrientos, who is friendly with the Presidents of Argentina and Brazil-both of whom are also ex-generals...