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Turmoil in Latin America shapes 1970 and beyond
The year 1970 featured Allende’s Chile victory and a leftward drift across the region with nationalizations in Chile and Cuba relations, widespread political assassinations, and kidnappings in Argentina Uruguay and Paraguay. Military rule persisted in several nations while Peru suffered a monumental earthquake and Brazil touted growth amid reports of torture and death squads.
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Buenos Aires
UPSI
Marsist
Dr . Allende
Chile
Latin America
Allende
Western Hemisphere
Fidel Castro
Cuba
LSA
U.S
Guatemala
Argentina
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
U.S. Agency For International Development (Aid
Dan A
Chileva
Ery Fremists
Rene Schneider
San Hugo
Paraguay
Asuncion
Benjam Varon
Nobuo Okuchi
Sao Paulo
Ehrenfried von Holleben
Rio de Janeiro
Waldemar Sanchez
Sean Holly
Guatemala City
Donald Crowley
Dominican Republic
Curtis Cutter
Porto Alegre
Brazil
Yuri Pivavarov
Uruguay
Claude L. Fly
Aloysio Dias Gomide
Montevideo
Perienved
Juan Carusa Bania
Ongania
Army
Navy
Air Force
Ger
Robert
Marcela Levingston
Washington, D.C
Levingston
Juan Jose Torres
Torres
Alfredo Quando Candia
Misael Pastrana Barrero
Colombia
Jose Figueres
Costa Rica
Carlos Arana Osorio
Joaquin Balaguer
Luis Echeverria
Mexico
Panama
Per
Paraguy
Jose Maria Velasco
Ibarra
Raul Sends
Topamaros
Joaquin Ferreira
Sag Paulo
Ferreira
Peru
Soviet Union
China
Richard Nixon
Pat
Emilio Garrastazu Medici
Secon
Amazon
Brazi