Pinochet

A Broader Coalition For Chile's Center-Left?

AP | By FEDERICO QUILODRAN | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Chile, Chile Center Left, Carolina Toha, Pinochet, Chile Elections, Chile Center Left Coalition, Sebastian Pinera, World News

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's coalition of four center-left parties, displaced after 20 years in power by the right-wing alliance led by President Sebast...

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

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Wamm, Bush Administration Torture, Women-Against-Military-Madness, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, Pinochet, Torture Memos, Augusto Pinochet, Torture, Politics News
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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Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Mishkenot Sha?Ananim, Kenwood House, Sigmund Freud, Alma Singer, Bruno Schulz, Pinochet, The Moomintroll Series, Georges Perec, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fleur Cowles, Man Walks Into a Room, Evelyn Waugh, John Fowles, Haim Hazaz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, National Book Award, Yehuda Amichai, Rembrandt, Franz Kafka, Jerusalem Cultural Fellowship, Saul Bellow, Peter Handke, Jerusalem, John Foster Dulles, Susan Sontag, Amos Oz, Zbigniew Herbert, Chile, Tove Jansson, Francis Bacon, Courtauld Institute in London, Nicole Krauss, The Last Jew, Great House, Hampstead Heath, The History of Love, Yoel Hoffmann, Samuel Beckett, Yoram Kaniuk, David Grossman, Israel, Harry Ransom Center, Thomas Bernhard, Books We Love, Books News
Elana Estrin

While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.

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38 Years Since the Attack on La Moneda: A Witness

Nestor Fantini | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: Salvador Allende, Pinochet, Chilean History, La Moneda, Latino Voices News
Nestor Fantini

"Before dying, according to Dr. Quijon, the last person to see him alive, the president yelled: 'Allende does not surrender, milicos de mierda!'"

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More PR Shame: Associated Press Cooperates With Dictatorial Propaganda Machines

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Mussolini, Barbara Demick, Che Guevara, Hitler, Fidel Castro, Associated Press, Mao, Pinochet, Cuba, Syria, Dictators, North Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Media News
Thor Halvorssen

Is any of the dark, undeniable reality of life under Castro mentioned in a single caption of the thousands of photographs offered by the AP? Not once. Castro, they repeat, is a "revolutionary hero."

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The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepulveda

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Luis Sepulveda, The Shadow of What We Were, Salvador Allende, Pinochet, Punchuncavi, Pedro Nolasco, Premio Primavera, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

Set in Chile decades after Pinochet's bloody 1973 coup, The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepulveda is an exquisite, deeply affecting story of old friendships, long-tested loyalties, and undeniable bonds.

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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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ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

Michael Vazquez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Devil Wears Prada, Protect the Nation, Mysteries of Lisbon, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Henry Kissinger, Black Venus, The Tempest, Anti-Christ, Certified Copy, Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff, The Last of England, The Warning, Pinochet, Salvador Allenda, Sophie's Choice, Prisoner 13, Richard Nixon, Scenes From a Marriage, Medea, Roger & Me, Itt, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Pale Flower, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Aurora, Boxing Gym, Police Incident, The Social Network, Nuremberg, Film Socialisme, Another Year, El Compadre Mendoza, Foreign Parts, Naked, Let's Go With Pancho Villa, Career Girls, Gatos Viejos, Inside Job, Julie Taymor, Silence, Hereafter, The Breakfast Club, Desperately Seeking Susan, Carlos, Smithereens, Revolucion, We-Are-What-We-Are, Arts News
Michael Vazquez

by Michael Vazquez Two weeks after the close of the New York Film Festival, herewith, my first posting, by way of random notes on thirty-nine films: ...

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Choosing Sides in a 1930s-like Economy

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fear, Poverty, Muhammad Yunus, Economy, 9/11, 1930s, Pinochet, Fascism, Fear George W Bush, Anti-Globalization, Income Gap, Cagoule, Elitism, Resistance, World War II, Milton Friedman, Inequality, Business News
Vivian Norris

If you are truly for freedom and prosperity, it must be for all humans, not just a select spoiled few. Elect people like Elizabeth Warren to office, fight for people who truly represent everyone's best interests.

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Luciano Varela, Spain's Powerful Judge, Charged With Abuse Of Power

AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 05.25.2011

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MADRID — The Spanish judge who became an international hero by going after Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden was indicted Wednesday for having da...

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Terror: The Last Recourse of the Dictatorship

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Claudia Cadelo, Columbian Narco-Guerillas, Cuba, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Pinochet, Batista, World News
Yoani Sanchez

This guest column was written by Miriam Celaya, whose blog, Without Evasion, recently won the prize for Best Journalism Blog in the Virtual Island con...

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This Film is an Idiot's Version of Naomi Klein's Masterpiece

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Debt, Depression, Salvador Allende, Naomi Klein, Mixed Economies, Apartheid, Conservatism, Michale Winterbottom, Capitalism, Pinochet, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Communism, Freedom Charter, Channel 4, Margaret Thatcher, Anc, Shock Doctrine, Cia, World Bank, Tianamen, Imf, Milton Friedman, Soviet Union, World News
Johann Hari

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.

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Chile: Remnants Of Dictatorship Get New Life

GlobalPost | Pascale Bonnefoy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalpost, Chile, South America, Latin America, Chile Dictatorship, Santiago Chile, Chile Pinochet, Dictatorship, Pinochet, Augusto Pinochet, World News

SANTIAGO, Chile -- During Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, political prisoners were held in navy ships and stadiums, in office buildings and police st...

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Pinochet Museum Portrays Chile's Infamous Dictator In A Different Light (VIDEO)

GlobalPost | Mark Scheffler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean Museum, Chile, Pinochet Museum, Pinochet, Augusto Pinochet, Video, Latin America, World News

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Brutal dictator or misunderstood hero? A case study in the banality of evil, or a modest showcase for a complicated man? That's ...

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McCain's Private Visit With Chilean Dictator Pinochet Revealed For First Time

John Dinges | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Dinges

In 1985, McCain traveled to Chile for a friendly meeting with the country's military ruler, one of the world's most notorious violators of human rights credited with killing more than 3,000 civilians and jailing tens of thousands of others.

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