TWBiRI@W&T@FAMILY LlFâ‚Ź Forth# lfhst time in the history.d Cule, during the three years d the Untdad Pcpular gowmment,-~lY life appeared deeply inftuenced by political division basedon crlas~
w. thsexhmee to which the poliiloS ofthe country arrived during that period male an
impact in each Chilean home. bringing abvwt the division ofthefamily. If one considere that thwsiduatkn in work and educatkn also impacted strongly on family Ilfe, inasmuch as the worker or student members of the familv found themselves entangled in the general politics of the country as promoted by Marxism, we shall then have a full piGiure of the factors that brought unrestfrom the streets to thehomes during that time. Eventhecommon fact of children informingon theirparents, which prevails intheCommunistnations, began to be seriously promoted in Chile. This picture barely reflects the anguish present in every family, uncertaint about the future. Thousands and thousands of mothers spent the greater part of the day or night standing in lines waiting to purchaseessential goods. Only thosefamiliesthatacceptedto belong to Supply and Price Boards JAP-. formed by the government in each neighborhood to control the supply of essentials-a usual procedure in the Socialist countries-were spared the shortage of foodstuffs. ECONOMIC RIGHTS
A. Private Property Concurrent with marxist doctrine, from its very start, the Government of Salvador Allende announced its decided purpose of putting an end to the private ownership of Chilean production media. To this end, every conceivable procedure was used, from deceit of the law and coerced purchase through pressure of public service visits of inspection -Internal Revenue, for instance, to material takeover by force that even included bodily harm to the owners. The thousands of enterprises, establishments and agricultural properties that were expropiated, requisioned and taken over, provide the best proof of the level reached in Chile insofar as property rights, during that phase of maotist ideology observance. The Supreme Court of Justice the National Congress, the Comptroller General of the Republic, all the democratic political parties, trade unions and other such institutionsleft an official record of the violations committed on large, medium and small propem by the government. Court decisions ordering restitution of illicitly expropriated or.taken-over property, just as the rulings passed by the Comptroller General of the Republic, went unheeded by the aovernment, which denied the use of the police to enforce those decisions. 0. Precarious Economic Situation
The econlofnic policy which the Government of the UnEdad Popular carried out, had the clear purpose of destroyingthe economy of the country, in the hope that once this goal had been attained, a maotist economy on the basis of the dictatorship of the proletariat could be established and which everyone was to accept inthe face of existing chaos. One may add that the Allende Government fell when it had carried out the destructive part of this policy and was preparing to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat which was to build a socialist economy on the spoils of the then destroyed capitalism. The statistical figures in Chile during such years are only too eloquentto demostrate the truth of this assertion. It is sufficient to this end, to bear in mind that international reservesof foreign currency that reachedUS 332.700.000in December 1970, by SePtember 1973 represented a negative balance of US 421.700.000. The deficit in the balance of payments reached astronomical figures due to the economic destruction of the country, which consequently made it necessary to import hundreds of millions of dollars in foodstuffs which were produced in Chile before: Arbitrarily controled inflation during the first period of the government intended to impart a sensation of stability and economic prosperity in the eve of the corning congres
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