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By militarizing law enforcement, the US is entering largely uncharted waters, but it’s familiar territory for Chile and Argentina, where established democracies broke down in the 1970s.
In 38 Londres Street, Philippe Sands brings to light the struggle to hold Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and former Nazi Walther Rauff accountable.
History is dotted with instances of strongmen who burnish their image or crack down on opponents after attempts on their life.
Despite hosting the 2023 Pan American Games and electing a president with a progressive agenda, Chile continues to grapple with entrenched economic inequality.
It’s hard to overestimate the role Henry Kissinger played in Chile. A former Chilean diplomat describes the mark that the powerful statesman made in his country and elsewhere in the Global South.
State-sponsored disappearance plays into the most primal of human fears – to vanish without a trace. The modern era started with Chile’s US-backed coup on September 11 1973
The Cold War was an economic standoff as well as an atomic one. The author of a new book describes the minds behind the great ideological battles on that 20th-century front line.
Voters have rejected radical proposals to overhaul the constitution established under the Pinochet dictatorship.
The word ‘neoliberal’ gets thrown around a lot, often with differing and even contradictory meanings. Here, a political economist explains the origins and evolution of this complex concept.
The US frequently chooses to put its own interest ahead of its professed values. That approach to foreign policy is called ‘realpolitik’ and it may lead to an unsatisfying peace deal in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin has a history of flattening cities in time of conflict. But alleged war crimes in Chechnya and Syria never resulted in charges, let alone prosecutions. Will Ukraine be any different?
Three decades after the Chilean people toppled the notorious Pinochet regime, a new standard bearer for the far right is leading the polls.
Elisa Loncon has pledged to prioritise indigenous and women’s rights as part of the constitutional reform.
Biden is not the first public figure to whom the Catholic Church wants to deny Communion. Over the centuries, the Church has often come under criticism for either denying or giving Communion.
Chilean art activists are using social media to expose abuses and, in doing so, they’re engaging in the legacy of Latin American mail art
To quell weeks of protest over extreme inequality, Chile’s president has agreed to rewrite the country’s constitution, passed in 1980 under the deadly military regime of Augusto Pinochet.
Unresolved legacies of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet are driving anger at the cost of living in Chile.
Former president Ricardo Lagos, who is revered for standing up to the dictator Augusto Pinochet, says goodbye to public life.
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