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...launching the Alliance for Progress. "We invite our friends in Latin America to contribute to the enrichment of life and culture in the United States. We need access to your music, your art." Last week in Washington, the invitation was gladly accepted. With an evening of music and poetry, Chile opened a two-month-long "Image of Chile" program that will delve deeply into the country's music, literature, poetry, art, theater and folkways, and bring together a rainbow of celebrities-both from the U.S. and Chile...
Ambassador in the Chorus. The man behind the image is Chilean Ambassador Sergio Gutierrez Olivos, 43, an affable, energetic lawyer who began his ambassadorial career only four years ago, with an assignment in Argentina. "This is an effort," says Gutierrez, "to share the true, honest image of Chile-not only the cultural peaks, but also those who are coming up, the contemporary and the future. The image of Latin America is diffused in the U.S., and we wish to clarify...
Gutierrez went to work on his Image of Chile as soon as he arrived in Wash ington last February. He recruited performers, rounded up private companies in Chile as financial angels. Not one cent had to come from the Chilean or U.S. governments. Meantime, the ambassador's wife sent out 15,000 invitations to universities, cultural groups, government and diplomatic officials...
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Last week Cardinal Silva Henriquez called upon Chile to speed up the pace of reform. "Social injustice and poverty," he said, "foster Communism. It is urgent to act quickly. We are at the brink. If we do not produce legal and immediate solutions, others can break in and take our place. It is necessary to be Christian with social justice, with charity, with brotherhood. We must not be reactionaries...