Chile is now the owner of its mines, and the workers must know that copper is the wage of Chile, its principal wealth. Copper earns 83 percent of Chile’s foreign exchange income. Of Chile’s total exports of $1.15 billion, copper …
Santiago, Chile, July 1971 The Chilean Revolution is irreversible and irrepressible. Whatever happens now the “two Chiles” of the past (the Chile of the rich, and that of the poor) are gone forever. Will the experience through which the country is …
In the October 1970 presidential election, there were some 3,540,000 registered voters. About 600,000 abstained. The candidates of the left-wing Popular Union coalition won 1,075,616 votes (36.3 percent); The “national” (rightist) candidate, Jorge Alessandri, 1,036,278 (34.98 percent); and 824,849 voted …
