The World - News from July 31, 1986
The State Department’s leading Latin America specialist said that if the United States had to vote now on new international loans for Chile, he would recommend voting no. But Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, said the first vote on a development bank loan for Chile will not occur until October, leaving “plenty of time for the government to make all sorts of changes” that would persuade the United States to vote yes. He told a House Banking subcommittee that those changes should include a speedier transition to democracy from the military dictatorship of President Augusto Pinochet and curbs on human rights abuses.
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