Augusto Pinochet

Cinema As Historical Conscience: Post-Mortem Final Screenings In NYC Today (VIDEO)

Michael Vazquez | Posted 04.24.2012

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Michael Vazquez

I'm re-posting this review from NYFF#48 to earnestly remind fans of engagé cinema that today is their last chance to screen Post-Mortem, an essential, unflinching meditation on Chile's semi-recent history -- and by extension, its (and our own) ongoing internal reckoning.

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Crimes Against Humanity--And Fashion: World's Worst-Dressed Dictators

TruTV.com | Posted 04.02.2012

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Crushing entire nations can leave little time for wardrobe decisions. From Adolf Hitler to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dictators past and present have on...

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Baltasar Garzon, Champion of Human Rights

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Spanish Civil War, Chile Murders, Baltasar Garzon Human Rights, Human Rights, Batasar Garzon, Augusto Pinochet, Chile Disappearences, World News
Kerry Kennedy

Judge Garzon has courageously sought accountability for atrocities around the world. His conviction in the wake of his pursuit of justice for the murdered and the disappeared should be a warning to all who care about human rights.

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Prominent Human Rights Judge Suspended For 11 Years

AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 04.10.2012

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MADRID — The superstar Spanish judge who won global fame for aggressively taking on international human rights cases was convicted Thursday of o...

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Suspicions Linger Over Pablo Neruda's Death

AP | By EVA VERGARA | Posted 03.16.2012

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ISLA NEGRA, Chile -- The suspicions have lingered for decades. Pablo Neruda, Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, would have been a powerful voice in ex...

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Chile Rethinks Sugar-Coated Language Describing Dictatorship

Posted 01.06.2012

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Looks like the Chilean government has decided that characterizing Augusto Pinochet's years in power as a "regime" rather than a "dictatorship" is not ...

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Pinochet's Brazilian Support

AP | Posted 12.12.2011

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Telegrams exchanged between the Brazilian and Chilean governments in the early 1970s show Brazil's military leaders supported August...

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Former Guatemalan President Part Of Infamous Extradition Fraternity

Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Human Rights, Latino Politics, Manuel Noriego, Extradition, Alfonso Portillo, Simon Trinidad, Jorge 40, Caravan of Dreams, Rodriguez Orejuela, Augusto Pinochet, Latino Voices News

When the former president of Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo, gets extradited he will join an infamous fraternity of Latin American figures whisked away f...

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PHOTOS: 7 Reasons That America Made The World More Dangerous

Andrew Feinstein | Posted 01.08.2012

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Andrew Feinstein

The arms trade stretches across a continuum of legality and ethics from the official, or formal trade, to the grey and black markets, what I refer to as "the shadow world." In practice, the boundaries between the three markets are fuzzy.

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Bush Kept Out of Canada, Can We Keep Him Out of Minnesota Too?

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.15.2011

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Coleen Rowley

Please JOIN US for an anti-torture candlelight vigil dedicated to detainees and victims of torture authorized by George Bush! Wednesday, September2...

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On the 10-Year Anniversary of 9/11, What Can We Learn From the Other 9/11?

Maria Armoudian | Posted 11.11.2011

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Maria Armoudian

The US has something to learn from the other 9/11, the one in Chile that came before us.

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Chile's September 11

Al Jazeera | Posted 11.09.2011

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September 11 marks the anniversary of the 1973 military coup that replaced Chile’s democratically-elected socialist government led by President Salv...

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Chile Recognizes 9,800 More Pinochet Victims

AP | EVA VERGARA | Posted 10.18.2011

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SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile officially recognized 9,800 more victims of its dictatorship on Thursday, increasing the total number of people killed, ...

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The Chilean Miners, One Year After: Bitter Sweet Memories

Paula Escobar Chavarría | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Chile, Chilean Miners, Augusto Pinochet, Sebastian Pinera, Education, Cacerolazos, Latino Voices News
Paula Escobar Chavarría

A year ago, we were really united, and the president was very popular. Now, we are facing an intense movement of students fighting for better and less expensive education.

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Autopsy Confirms Ex-Chilean President Committed Suicide

AP | EVA VERGARA | Posted 09.18.2011

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SANTIAGO, Chile — A scientific autopsy has confirmed that Chilean President Salvador Allende committed suicide during the 1973 coup that toppled...

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Was Pablo Neruda Murdered?

John Lundberg | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Chile, Murder, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Allende, Assassination, Neruda Poetry, Augusto Pinochet, Poetry, Books News
John Lundberg

Pablo Neruda once wrote, "We all arrive by different streets, by unequal languages, at Silence." But just how the great poet arrived at his ultimate silence is the subject of heated debate in his home country, Chile.

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Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón Who Indicted Bin Laden Opposes Targeted Killing

Democracy Now! | Posted 07.12.2011

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Democracy Now!

"Any person who leads a terrorist organization like al Qaeda is obviously a target," Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón said. "Under the rule of law, justice should be sought by legal means.

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The Great Wealth Shift Upward: Corporatists' War on the Working Class

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago School of Economics, Milton Friedman, Disaster Capitalism, Balanced Budget, Economic Fraud, Deregulated Markets, President Salvador Allende, Neo-Feudalism, Union-Busting, Ronald Reagan, Drown Government, New Orleans Post-Katrina, Deficit Reduction, Labor Problem, Michael Hudson, Deficit Commission, Augusto Pinochet, Chile Coup, Neoliberals, Shock Doctrine, Koch Brothers, U.S. Financial Crisis, Tom Ferguson, Middle East Uprisings, Dr. Robert A. Johnson, Privatization, William K. Black, Mubarak, Bankrupt States, Grover Norquist, Alan Greenspan, Naomi Klein, Permanent Underclass, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Denver News
Michele Swenson

"Balancing the budget" and "deficit reduction" have become code for shifting the benefits of government spending to corporations away from workers.

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Inside Tahrir Square

Joe Lauria | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joe Lauria

CAIRO, Egypt -- I was sitting in a hotel room in Amman, Jordan staring at Omar Suleiman's grim face on television as he read his 20-second statement o...

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Farewell Friday: Tahrir Square Has Spoken

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shirin Sadeghi

Yet another Western-backed dictator is set to fall from grace. The Shah of Iran, Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein -- they all refused to concede defeat. And they all fell down. Hosni Mubarak will, too, if he doesn't review his history books.

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The Arab Pinochet Has Left the Scene

Richard Eisendorf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Colonialism, Demonstrations, Secret Police, Authoritarianism, Detention, Tunisia, Civil Rights, Economic Development, Chile, Democracy, Tunisia Riots, Dictatorship, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Resignation, Pinochet, Augusto Pinochet, War Crimes, Elections, Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia Protests, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, Torture, World News
Richard Eisendorf

Like Pinochet, Ben Ali traded civil and human rights for economic development -- and lost.

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Republicans Slam Chilean Miners: "They Should Have Climbed Up on Their Own"

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Abrams

Glen Beck warned Chile that government rescuing the miners promoted social justice, the evil worm that has eaten at the fabric of American society since the days of Teddy Roosevelt.

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Affirmative Action Divides Brazil as Election Nears

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Ehrmann

It's a reminder of how efforts to globalize the United States model of social organization by race can cause the fragmentation of national identity in a regional power like Brazil.

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Don't Cry for Argentina?

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Videla, Carlos Gardel, Falklands War, Financial Crisis, Credit Default Swaps, Amado Boudou, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Nestor Kirchner, Argentina Bonds, Greek Debt Crisis, Ford Motor Co, Augusto Pinochet, Argentine Peso Forwards, Martin Redrado, World News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

After nearly a decade of depression, recession and resurrection, Argentina wants to retire its remaining unpaid debt at about 50 cents on the dollar and rejoin world financial markets.

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Chile's Socialist Rebar

Naomi Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Chile Earthquake 2010, Bret Stephens, Milton Friedman, Wall Street Journal, Augusto Pinochet, Chile Earthquake, World News
Naomi Klein

According to Bret Stephens, Pinochet's free-market policies are the reason Chile is a prosperous nation with "some of the world's strictest building codes." Too bad these codes came before he was even in power.

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