The interwar years in Latin America saw a remarkable flourishing of left-wing political thought aiming to challenge US dominance. That could offer lessons for today.
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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.
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.
For every one of Kissinger’s brilliant moves, there was a bungling countermove.
As a passionate and partisan defender of Allende’s socialism, Guzmán’s films celebrate popular protest and struggles for democracy and equality in Chile.
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.
Argentina has convicted more people for its dictatorship-era crimes than Uruguay has.
Voters have rejected radical proposals to overhaul the constitution established under the Pinochet dictatorship.
Elisa Loncon has pledged to prioritise indigenous and women’s rights as part of the constitutional reform.
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.
Former president Ricardo Lagos, who is revered for standing up to the dictator Augusto Pinochet, says goodbye to public life.
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PhD Candidate, Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, King's College London
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Outgoing Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
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Founding Director, Centre for Britain and Europe, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Surrey
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Associate Professor, Clark University
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Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor in International Relations of the Americas, UCL
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Economics, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Lecturer, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
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Professor of Politics, Oberlin College and Conservatory
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Adjunct Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
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Assistant Professor of History, Modern Latin America, University of Colorado Boulder