Abstract
This section continues the discussion of the meaning of the socialist experiment and the bloody military coup begun in the second issue of Latin American Perspectives devoted to Chile. Deena Metzger, who teaches at the California Institute of the Arts, expresses her views in a poem written shortly after the coup. Gonzalo Arroyo, a Jesuit participant in the Chris tians for Socialism movement and presently an exile in Paris, expresses a critical view of the role of the institutional church in the post-coup period. Barbara Stallings, a graduate student in political science at Stanford Uni versity and Andy Zimbalist, who teaches economics at Smith College, col laborate in an analysis of the economic policy of the Popular Unity govern ment and a discussion of the economic feasibility of the "Brazilian model" in Chile. The section closes with some comments by David Barkin, who teaches economics at Lehman College, City College of New York, in re sponse to articles appearing in the special Chile issue mentioned above.
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