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...Current. Reports were heard of plots in other Latin American countries-Venezuela, Chile, Peru. Some were mere rumors, but it was obvious that a continental current was flowing. The success of the "Colonels' Clique" in Argentina, if underlined by a similar "Majors' Clique" in Bolivia, might encourage further army officer revolts. These might be purely nationalist in origin, not necessarily instigated by outsiders, but they would probably take Fascist forms and look to Argentina for support. Then the U.S. would be confronted by a powerful anti-democratic bloc within the "Good Neighbor" circle...
Free, liberal Chile last week felt a bone-chilling wind blow down from the Andes. The Government announced that it had discovered a subversive plot involving "Latin American neighbors." Not much more was told. No names. No arrests as yet. But every Chilean thought of the arrogant "Colonels Clique" of Argentina and of its suspected desire to organize similar Fascist regimes in neighboring countries. Said Arturo Espinoza, Army commander in chief: "The Army is awake with its eyes wide open and will defend the Constitutional Government...
...those who looked beneath the surface of Chilean democracy, there were disturbing signs. Ever since the war began to affect the Western Hemisphere, Chile has suffered increasingly from inflation. Her upper and middle classes are reveling in paper profits. Nightclubs are jammed. Landlords have seen their properties increase five times in paper value...
...people of Chile, the rotos or "broken men," go dressed in rags, eat beans and rice in miserable portions, live in one-room hovels for which they pay extortionate rents, find that their few pesos buy less & less food and goods...
...such ultra-slick modern methods, the MNR (Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario) came into pow er in Bolivia. The rebels dashed about in Lend-Lease jeeps, invaded the homes of Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...