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Pablo Neruda and The Perilous Andes

Terence Clarke | Posted 04.12.2013 | Books
Read More: Chilean Democracy, Chile, Pablo Neruda, Cold War, Pablo Neruda Exhumed, Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda Poetry, Augusto Pinochet, Books News
Terence Clarke

The news that the Chilean government has exhumed Pablo Neruda's remains, to determine whether or not his death was caused by poisoning, brings a new, but not surprising, twist to Neruda's life, even forty years after his demise.

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Hugo Chávez and Victor Hugo

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.08.2013 | World
Read More: Lee Fahnestock, Al Gore, Beníto Juárez, Simón Bolívar, Hugo Chávez, Noam Chomsky, Fantine, George W. Bush, The Bishop of Digne, Eduardo Galeano, Barack Obama, Pablo Neruda, Cosette, Fidel Castro, Victor Hugo, Jean Valjean, Salvador Allende, Oscar Romero, Diego Rivera, Lázaro Cárdenas, Augusto Sandino, Ernesto Cardenal, President Clinton, Daphnee Denis, Victor Jara, World News
Norman MacAfee

I knew that Gore had seen the musical of Les Misérables with his sister, who was dying of cancer. I knew that Chávez's favorite book was Les Misérables. So I put the two men together.

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No Didn't Win the Best Foreign Film Oscar, But It's the Most Fun

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 04.28.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Chile, Gael Garcia Bernal, Berlin Wall, Advertising, Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, Bruce Springsteen, Video, Entertainment News
Jesse Kornbluth

No, Chile's first-ever nominee for Best Foreign film, was never going to be playing in the sixplex next to Die Hard: The Reunion Tour. But when it didn't win the Academy Award, there went the possibility that Americans will even know it exists. Let's correct that here.

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Chileans Mark 9/11 Coup Anniversary

AP | Posted 11.11.2012 | World
Read More: Chile, Video, Salvador Allende, Chile Coup Anniversary, Agusto Pinochet, Chile Coup Allende, Chile Pinochet, Chile Protestsm Chile Coup, Chile-Coup-March, Santiago, World News

SANTIAGO, Chile — Activists in Chile marked their own 9-11 Tuesday, the anniversary of the day in 1973 when Gen. Augusto Pinochet seized power i...

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

Michael Vazquez | Posted 06.24.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Pablo Larrain, Henry Kissinger, Michael Vazquez, Richard Nixon, Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, Video, Entertainment News
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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Suspicions Linger Over Pablo Neruda's Death

AP | By EVA VERGARA | Posted 03.16.2012 | World
Read More: Chile, Manuel Araya, Pablo Neruda, Cultura, Pablo-Neruda-Death, Pablo Neruda Exile, Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda Nobel Prize, Pablo-Neruda-Poetry, Eduardo Contreras, Augusto Pinochet, World News

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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Chilean President Committed Suicide, Autopsy Confirms

AP | Posted 12.29.2011 | World
Read More: Suicide, Chile, Salvador Allende Suicide, Chile President, Chile President Salvador Allende, Salvador Allende, World News

SANTIAGO, Chile -- A judge in Chile has closed the case on the death of President Salvador Allende after an authoritative autopsy confirmed it was sui...

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Salvador Allende Has Words for Barack Obama From the Other Side of Death

Ariel Dorfman | Posted 12.10.2011 | Politics
Read More: Communicating With the Dead, Voices of the Dead, Revolutionary Coup, Coup, Salvador Allende, Barack Obama, Advice for Obama, Politics News
Ariel Dorfman

For the last decade, I have been haunted by voices from the other side of death. Salvador Allende came to me offering advice for Barack Obama. It seemed, at first glance, a strange connection.

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38 Years Since the Attack on La Moneda: A Witness

Nestor Fantini | Posted 11.11.2011 | Latino Voices
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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On Lincoln Center's Latinbeat: The Death of Pinochet

Michael Vazquez | Posted 10.11.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Chilean Wine, Pablo Larrain, Cia, Henry Kissinger, Richard Pena, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Chile, South American Politics, Soft Diplomacy, Michael Vazquez, Latinbeat, Salvador Allende, Walter Reade Theater, Richard Nixon, Margaret Thatcher, Lollapalooza, Patricio Guzman, Bettina Perut & Ivan Osnovikoff, Patricio Guzmán, Marcela Goglio, Entertainment News
Michael Vazquez

For most Americans, it may be hard to believe there is another nation on Earth for whom 9/11 is a defining day -- but to Chileans, it is, and was so, long before ours. In fact, Chile's 9/11 occurred with the aid of unseen US influence facilitating a bloody military coup d'etat.

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Autopsy Confirms Ex-Chilean President Committed Suicide

AP | EVA VERGARA | Posted 09.18.2011 | World
Read More: Chile, Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende, Patricio Guijon, La-Moneda-Palace, 1973-Chilean-Coup, Augusto Pinochet, Patricio Bustos, World News

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 | Books
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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Desposed Chilean President To Get Autopsy -- 38 Years Later

AP | By FEDERICO QUILODRAN and EVA VERGARA | Posted 07.27.2011 | World
Read More: Salvador Allende Autopsy, Chile, Autopsy, 1973 Chilean Coup, Salvador Allende, Chile Coup, World News

SANTIAGO, Chile -- A dental review has confirmed that the remains pulled from Salvador Allende's tomb in Chile are those of of the deposed president, ...

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Phil Ochs, Tom Paine, And There But for Fortune

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Harvey Kaye, Thomas Paine, Phil Ochs, Greenwich Village Rockaway, Dave Van Ronk, Pete Seeger, American Crisis, Sean Penn, Bob Dylan, Common Sense, Joan Baez, Salvador Allende, Kenneth Bowser, John Adams, Victor Jara, Peter Yarrow, Politics News
Bruce E. Levine

The afterlife of the man once called "Tom Paine with a guitar" has, for the last 30 years, paralleled that of Tom Paine himself. Both Ochs and Paine were discarded by their respective mainstream worlds.

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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune -- New Documentary Opens in Los Angeles

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Lorne Michaels, A&M Records, : Phil Ochs, I Ain?T Marching Anymore, Live Nation, Paul and Mary, Eugene O?Neill, John Wayne, Joan Baez, John Ford, Spiderman, Peter, Abbie Hoffman, Peter Seeger, The Weavers, Ken Bowser, Pleasures of the Harbor, Martin Luther King, Salvador Allende, Michael Ochs, Meegan Ochs, Michael Cohl, Tom Hayden, Saturday Night Live, Victor Jara, Rolling Stones, Michael Rose, Los Angeles News
Michael Rose

Kennedy's assassination, the ongoing turmoil of resistance to integration and the escalation of the Vietnam War gave the singers a new identity. At the center of the storm was Phil Ochs.

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The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepulveda

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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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Henry Kissinger: Moral Midget Destined for Obscurity

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Nixon Tapes, American Revolution, Jews, Civil Rights Movement, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Henry Kissinger, Edmund Burke, Hardball, Chile, United States, Macbeth, Soviet Union, H.R. Haldeman, Civil Rights, Msnbc, John Dunne, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Salvador Allende, Genocide, Abraham Lincoln, Sir Thomas More, Morality, Socrates, Shakespeare, Fbi, Seneca Falls, Pericles, Blood Libel, Politics News
Bruce Fein

At key points in his ego-driven career, Henry Kissinger was confronted with a choice between power and moral principle. He chose power, and became a moral dwarf.

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WikiLeaks Exposes More Than Documents

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Democracy Now!, Wikileaks, Rick Stengel, Charles Krauthammer, Senator Frank Church, Pakistan, Joe Klein, Fair, Diane Sawyer, Iran-Contra Scandal, Reagan, Kgb, Iran, Representative Peter King, Salvador Allende, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Julian Assange, Mikheil Saakashvili, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Martha Raddatz, FoxNews.Com, Inter-Services Intelligence, Charlie Rose, Christian Whiton, Isi, Amy Goodman, Chile, Ahmed Zia Massoud, Daniel Ellsberg, Tass, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Time Magazine, Soviet Union, Assange, Oliver North, Massimo Calabresi, New York Times, Israel, ABC News, Eugene Hasenfus, North Korea, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Rather than focus on the substance of the leaked diplomatic cables, American journalists tend to either frame the story as being about the "over-classification" of documents or the personal motivations and private life of Julian Assange.

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Nelson Mandela Meets With Renowned Author Ariel Dorfman In South Africa

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Salvador Allende, Ariel Dorfman, Authors, Mandela Dorfman, Books, Books News

JOHANNESBURG — The Nelson Mandela Foundation says renowned Chilean-American author Ariel Dorfman has met with the South African icon and former ...

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Stone's Border Shows Fall of South America's Berlin Wall

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: South America, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Afghanistan, Oliver Stone, International Monetary Fund, Rafael Correa, Chile, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Brazil, Foreign Policy, Ecuador, Iran, Gaza, Venezuela, Salvador Allende, Honduras, Israel, South of the Border, World News
Robert Naiman

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In Business and Speaking, Silence Can Be Golden

Tim Berry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Negotiation, Small Business, Salvador Allende, Speaking, Business News
Tim Berry

I've often seen how silence can work as a tool. As you talk with somebody, and particularly in negotiations, use this to your favor. Take your time.

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Memorial for Social Activist Betty Millard (1911-2010)

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Wasp, Ho Chi Minh, Communism, White House, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Social Activism, French, Chicago, Barnard College, American Left, Social Action, Phil Donahue, Earl Robinson, Thought Leaders, Hudson River, Greenwich Village, Rhinebeck, Democratic Party, Guyana, Highland Park, Global Citizens, Duchess County, Social Justice, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Stanford Luce, Mandarin Chinese, The Stewardship Report, Vow of Poverty, Fidel Castro, Sexuality, Salvador Allende, Mccarthy Era, Cheddi Jagan, New Hampshire, French Resistance, Spanish Civil War, North Star Fund, Betty Millard, Manila, The New Masses, Fundamentalist Mindset, University of Chicago, Janet Jagan, Poughkeepsie, Tikkun Olam, New York City, Chinese Revolution, Barack Obama, Zhou Enlai, Gay and Lesbian, Latin America Today, White Mountains, Marxism, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, New York Times, Meat Packing District, Suffragette Movement, Mao Zedong, New York News
Jim Luce

Betty Millard of Chicago, a long-time social activist had danced with Zhou Enlai after the Chinese Revolution and then was called to testify as a host...

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

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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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Honduras: Term Limits When Governments Benefit People

Nelson P. Valdes | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Dominican Republic, Chile, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Henry Kissinger, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Manuel Zelaya, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Military Fascism, US-Policy-in-Latin-America, Manuel Zelaya Honduras, Post-Cold-War, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Chavism, Coup D'etat, Secretary Clinton, Anti-Castroites Miami, United Nations Development Programme, Cia, Oscar Arias, Richard Nixon, US Embassy, State-Department-Human-Rights-Report, Guatemala, Lyndon Johnson, Salvador-Allende, Undp, World News
Nelson P. Valdes

Congress and Courts belong to the rich and powerful who also control the military in cooperation with the Pentagon. Washington provided aid.

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