In Pablo Larrain's new film the villain is not a fictional one. He is General Augusto Pinochet, the brutal, U.S.-backed military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990 and died in 2006 still with the blood of thousands on his hands.
The question of where Chile’s true identity lies becomes ever more pressing as the fiftieth anniversary of Pinochet’s coup approaches.
Chile’s government has announced its much-anticipated plan to search for the victims of forced disappearance and political execution under Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, which began with a coup 50 years ago next month.
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Despite difficult conditions, the dream of Latin American integration endures. It is one that the international community, particularly the United States, should share.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a group of fellow progressive Democrats are heading to South America later this month on a congressional trip that will also challenge Biden administration policy in the region.
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To understand what the population rejected on 4 September, we have to look at the left’s lack of an economic programme to overcome neoliberalism; the impossibility of producing a persuasive narrative to oppose the smear campaign against the text.
Kissinger is having an extended birthday month. It has also been a month of outstanding watchdog reporting — including new revelations about previously untold mass killings Kissinger was responsible for in Cambodia.
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