RECKITT and Colman, the British mustard company is promoting a new product. In a full-colour, glossy newpaper called Roundabout it extols the virtues of - Chile!
The paper asks: Isn't it about time we started looking at the good things about this spectacular country?
'Chile and Atlantis -our business in Chile are well worth studying: because they're both sucstories and they're both good at solving their problems in dynamic, original ways.
In a truly original way, Colman's explain that the Chilean military only 'reluctantly" after displaycook power 'remarkable patience in the cout democratically elected Salvador Allende in 1973.
Freed And It- dynamically transmutes Catholic Church figures of 15,000 ortured and imprisoned CLIC military "several hundred'.
But let's not quibble about damned statistics because after all Chile 'today is a pleasant place to *Political prisoners have been freed, ALCOICS" sion eased and the right to argue against official PoncIes always evidence' the company says.
Chile also seems a pleaplace to die as the United Nations reported late last year, with an increase in numan rights violations.
Socialist Challenge Mass graves are still being found with corpses people who 'disappear, like the 2,000 or so whom tre detailed since the coup. International, Torture is • routiney in Chile during periods of incommunicado detention. But there we go again being ON negative.
well part or une reason people hot-blooded about Chile. say our mustard moguls, is due to involvement of the CIA.
Allende 'But, people tend to forget that the ordinary people of Chile would, without doubt, have unseated Allende without the help of the CIA, had he so continued to mis manage their country.
That's okay then the CIA saved the Chilean people the bother of doing it themselves. that was nice of them wasn't it?
Now here's one to interest all our readers. People get hot about Chile because Chile Suras proven monetarism works!
The Colman's conmen tell us that 'Chile's economy is run by a group of economists known to Chileans as "the Chicago boys? support fund set up CONTRIBUTIONS aid the clandestine trade union struggle against the Bolivian military dictatorship are urgently needed.
Money raised so far has towards the upkeep of trade unionists in hiding, support of tamilles of those killed or jailed and the purchase of typewriters and enable leaflets to be printed 1 and week Since the coup a year ago all trade unions fallen by 50 percent; over military zone.
Despite the repression there have been two 48-hour strikes and go-slow Dallis Fondions infort then bald contact the Support Fund London E7. Tel 01-471 Bank account: 01-43338275 National Westminster Bank Hurdwick Place, London NW1 2JG