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...least a fair chance of controlling the new Parliament. Hertzog promised to invite his friend and rival to join his Government and help him deal with such pressing matters as a new tin miners' strike, an Argentine proposal for a trade treaty like the one Peron made with Chile (TIME, Dec. 23) and a flood in tropical Beni province (where alligators had chased the flood victims into the tree tops...
When Communists' votes helped President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla into office last November, he paid off with three Cabinet posts-the first for the comrades in South America. Of the three, Agriculture pleased the party most. The wretched lot of Chile's 500,000 landless campesinos invites Communism. For a day's work, the average field hand gets 35?, a large piece of hard bread, and, occasionally, a sack of beans. His home (on most farms) is a small, windowless, mud-&-thatch hut, with a dirt floor...
...Lately Chile's rural roto (ragged one) has been hearing talk of farm unions that might get him more pesos. "What can we lose?" he says...
...Chile was getting another lesson in a familiar contemporary Latin American pattern. Poverty made Communists; Communists used poverty to advance their political ends; reactionaries answered with repressive measures that perpetuated poverty...
...three Cabinet posts in Chile...