CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A022600050002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 22, 1972
• Content Type: REPORT

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CHILE: Nationwide strike leads to violence in
Santiago. ago. (Page 5)
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CHILE: A nationwide strike by retail merchants
has Tei o violence in Santiago.
Long discontented with declining profit margins,
small retailers.seized upon the death of a store
owner in remote Punta Arenas as the pretext for a
nationwide demonstration yesterday. Many stores,
including food markets, remained closed on Monday.
Crowds gathered. in Santiago as police attempted to
order owners to reopen stores, and a general melee
erupted.. No deaths had been recorded as crowds be-
gan to disperse late last evening. Punta Arenas
has been turned. over to military control after five
days of .a general strike, but the-government has
denied rumors that a similar "'state of emergency"
has been declared for Santiago.
The opposition political parties appear to have
been surprised by the success of the strike. The
Christian Democrats have called for a demonstration
tomorrow, and their radio station in Santiago is
actively encouraging the strike.. Some paramilitary
units of the pseudo-fascist.Fatherland and Freedom
Movement were also active in the street fighting.
Allende in this case has the law on his side,
and may use the opportunity to enforce more central-
ized control in the distribution of food. The
strikers, however, will be tenacious opponents and
the government will be hard put to even begin to
solve the economic problems that lie at the root of
the strike.
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