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Eduardo Frei Montalva junto a los habitantes de la Isla Juan Fern\u00e1ndez el 2 de febrero de 1967.<\/p><\/div>\n
One of the tasks that Eduardo Frei Montalva carried out during his government was to visit many districts and towns in extreme parts of the country such as Putre (1970), Ays\u00e9n (1966), Punta Arenas and the Antarctic (link to the object) not only with the goal of implementing the \u201cRevolution in Liberty\u201d and the programs by the central government, but also with the intention of learning about the initiative of the residents of each place according to their needs. In this context, on February 2, 1967 the then president made a singular \u2013and surprising- visit for a day to Robinson Crusoe Island.<\/p>\n
A witness to this visit, is the current person in charge of the Public Library N\u00b0331 Daniel Defoe of the named place, Victorio Bertullo Mancilla, who came to live in 1964 to the island as a \u201cregular school teacher in the only school that existed for 3 years\u201d . According to what Bertullo says, Frei Montalva was resting in the Cerro Castillo Palace in Vi\u00f1a del Mar, when the idea of traveling for a day to the island with his wife, Mar\u00eda Ruiz-Tagle came up. In this improvised visit, the president was accompanied by his personal assistant of the Chilean Air Force and other members of the CAF. The four-hour trip was made in a Grumman amphibious aircraft which could land on the sea.
\nBertullo specially remembers Frei\u2019s charismatic personality. He \u201cconversed with all the residents in the island -various families of the place. At the moment of his visit we were no more than 350 people.\u201c 2.<\/p>\n
The relationship that Frei had with this remote national territory, had already started years before, because in 1965, the president received a request from the Uruguayan writer and painter Blanca Luz Brum Elizaide, resident at that moment of the Island, to change the name of the islands formerly known as M\u00e1s a tierra and M\u00e1s a afuera and preserve the name of the Santa Clara3islet.<\/p>\n
Telephone conversation held between Rodrigo Carre\u00f1o and Victorio Bertullo, on Thursday 15 January, 2015 at House Museum Eduardo Frei Montalva
\n2 Ibid.
\n3 http:\/\/www.comunajuanfernandez.cl\/tierra_afuera.htm. information corroborated by Victorio Bertullo in the telephone conversation<\/p>\n
The reason was that in that place, for four years and four months, the Scottish boatswain Alejandro Selkirk remained there. He landed from cruising Cinque Ports to M\u00e1s afuera. His stories were a source of inspiration for the novel \u201cThe life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe\u201d by Daniel Dafoe, which is one of the most famous books in adventure literature. The idea was welcomed on the part of the president as a way of exploiting the touristic development of the archipelago.<\/p>\n
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Cuando Frei Montalva realiz\u00f3 el viaje junto a su esposa, Mar\u00eda Ruiz-Tagle, en la isla no viv\u00edan m\u00e1s de 350 habitantes.<\/p><\/div>\n
In this way, on January 13, 1966 in Presidential Decree number 130, the names of the island were changed. Thus M\u00e1s afuera changed to Alejandro Selkirk and M\u00e1s a tierra became known as Robinson Crusoe. According to the Decree, the idea of the modification was \u201cto have proper identification between the island and the protagonist of a book of greater world outreach\u201d considering that \u201cthis change of name would not, in any way, play down the importance of the Portuguese marine who found these landforms, since the archipelago would continue to be named Juan Fern\u00e1ndez, a name known in almost all the Cartas Marinas 4(Maps of the sea).<\/p>\n
On the same day the Decree was signed by President Frei Montalva in Santiago, the then Vice secretary of the Interior , Juan Hamilton and the Minister of National Defense, Juan de Dios Carmona arrived to the island on a brief one-day tour, being welcomed by the Sub delegate Fernando Rojas Gallardo5. Hamilton declared then: \u201cThere is no historic doubt, and the documents states that Selkirk landed on the Island which currently has his name, where he lived without human company for years. All these precedents augment the aspects that make this island a wonderful place and cause a greater touristic impact\u201d 6.<\/p>\n
Several projects for infrastructure improvements were added to all this in order to enhance the people\u2019s quality of life; projects such as: a landing field, the creation of the Fish Production Cooperative with the support of INDAP, the rebuilding of the dock in Cumberland Bay7 and the cleaning of the bay carried out by the residents. The initiatives were stated by the Sub delegate and locals, in a town meeting in which Hamilton and Carmona8 were present. Additionally, the members of his cabinet were named together with his plan of improvements for this part southern Chile.<\/p>\n
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1. Telephone conversation held between Rodrigo Carre\u00f1o and Victorio Bertullo, on Thursday 15 January, 2015 at House Museum Eduardo Frei Montalva<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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2. Ibid.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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3. http:\/\/www.comunajuanfernandez.cl\/tierra_afuera.htm. information corroborated by Victorio Bertullo in the telephone conversation.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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4. http:\/\/www.leychile.cl\/Navegar?idNorma=1028992&r=2<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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5. La Naci\u00f3n Newspaper. 13.02.1967<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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6. Ib\u00edd.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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7. La Naci\u00f3n Newspaper. 15.02.1967<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
8. La Naci\u00f3n Newspaper. 14.02.1967<\/ol>\n