CHILEAN CRISIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000800060004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 4, 1957
• Content Type: BRIEF

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to stores curfew and restore order. Since start of
rioting (29 tar) several hundred have been killed or wounded,
mot of
500. Da
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the situation is extremely delicate
consider the ouster of Nee. Ibanez ps ible
of the Communist-dominated labor federation, the
the disorders on 2 Apr.
Ibanez convened emergency session of congress 3 April
A. Requesting "extraordinary powers" to suspend constitutional
claims powers will be granted. Rowever, vote looks close
4 April 1957
tg continued in riot-torn Santiago last night,
:n past 3 days. Arrests last night reportedly totalled
is said to exceed $2 million.
Communist Youth, and Individual Cu
kv ? t troops
rtedly
aiding the disturbances, which were initially sponsored by a
non-Communist student federation. Communist party leaders,
themselves, previously standing back, reportedly decided to
disorders appear to be a welling-up, of popular protest against
Chile's '-backed economic stabilization scheme, initiated in Jan.
ice of a 96 Investment firm.
A. Although cost of living rose only 3 in 1956 (coaampared with
n 1955) real income of workers to declining since
Gov't has limited compensating wage increases to 30%.
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controls to give appearance of complete price stabilization
during period Nov 156-Feb '87. Sharp upward break in prices
during Mar 157 came as shook to publ is .
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