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Five decades on, Chile still grapples with legacy of Pinochet dictatorship

It has been 50 years since Chile's military junta came to power. On September 11, 1973, the army headed by General Augusto Pinochet launched a coup with the US' covert backing. Soldiers took over the presidential palace, ousting leftist President Salvador Allende, who committed suicide. Pinochet then stayed in power…

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AP Week in Pictures: Global | Sept. 1-7 2023

Ukrainian soldiers suffer serious wounds during the ongoing counter-offensive against Russia. Chile remembers the 50th anniversary of the coup where President Salvador Allende was killed, and Gen. Augusto Pinochet was brought to power. And German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wears an eye patch after a jogging accident. This photo gallery highlights…

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The Catholic Church defended human rights during Chile’s dictatorship. An archive tells the story

The archive of the Vicariate of Solidarity gives an account of a painful episode in Chile’s history: 47,000 instances of human rights violations during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who took power after a military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende 50 years ago

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Fifty years after Chile’s coup, the search for truth continues

As 1973 coup still reverberates, a man is pushing for full history of US role in Augusto Pinochet’s rise and fall.

Al Jazeera

AP PHOTOS: 50 years ago, Chile's army ousted a president and everything changed

Fifty years ago, Chile began the darkest period in its modern history.

The Independent UK

A half-century after Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup, some in Chile remember the dictatorship fondly

The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism

The Independent UK

Fifty years on: the lasting tragedy of Chile’s coup

The brutality with which an elected government was deposed inspired military takeovers across Latin America – but also galvanised the human rights movement and spotlighted the dark activities of the CIA

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The big picture: an image that defined Chile’s brutal 1973 coup

Koen Wessing, a young Dutch photographer, flew to Santiago 50 years ago and showed the world what General Pinochet’s rule would mean for the country

The Guardian - UK

AOC urges US to apologize for meddling in Latin America: ‘We’re here to reset relationships’

Democratic congresswoman calls for acknowledgment of past intrusion in effort to restore trust in US leadership in the region

The Guardian - US

US state department declassifies more documents about Pinochet’s 1973 coup

Papers reveal how Richard Nixon was briefed on impending military takeover in Chile that ushered in 17-year dictatorship

The Guardian - US

The 1973 coup against democratic socialism in Chile still matters – there, in Britain and beyond

It happened 50 years ago, changed the course of world history – and revealed just how authoritarian conservatives are, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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From Oppenheimer to Milton Friedman: how the Cold War battle of economic ideas shaped our world

Is Oppenheimer a movie for our time, reminding us of the tensions, dangers and conflicts of the old Cold War while a new one threatens to break out?

The Conversation

Files reveal Nixon role in plot to block Allende from Chilean presidency

President hosted rightwing mogul Agustín Edwards in September 1970 and discussed plans to foil socialist election-winner

The Guardian - US

The Chicago Boys' Deal With the Devil

The Chile Project surveys neoliberalism's most polarizing experiment.

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How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile

Stafford Beer pioneered ‘cybernetic management principles’ but Pinochet’s coup saw technology turned to nefarious ends

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Book Review: Isabel Allende's 'The Wind Knows My Name' explores lives of 2 children adrift alone

Prolific Latin American-born author Isabel Allende skillfully braids the traumatic stories of two young children separated from each other by decades and thousands of miles in her latest novel, “The Wind Knows My Name.”

Businessweek

The Green Energy Transition Has a Chilean Copper Problem

Codelco is struggling to lift output amid the worldwide push toward electrification.

Chicago Sun-Times

Experts found Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned, his nephew says

Forensic experts plan to release a report Wednesday. The official position has been that Pablo Neruda died of prostate cancer, but his driver has said he was poisoned.

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Forensic study finds Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned

The toxin clostridium botulinum was in his body when he died in 1973, days after Chile’s military coup

The Independent UK

Experts determine Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned, nephew claims

A relative of the late Chilean poet Pablo Neruda says forensic experts have determined that the Nobel Prize winner died of poisoning nearly 50 years ago

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Experts found Chilean poet Neruda was poisoned, nephew says

A relative of the late Chilean poet Pablo Neruda says forensic experts have determined that the Nobel Prize winner died of poisoning nearly 50 years ago

Reuters

Chile, Colombia call for extraordinary OAS meeting after Brazil riots

Chilean President Gabriel Boric called for an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Monday to address riots in Brazil where supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed top government buildings.

Foreign Policy

Idealism Rules in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile

The exiled filmmaker’s latest work is a passionate—if incomplete—account of the 2019 estallido and its aftermath.

The Conversation

Rory Cormac's How to Stage a Coup is an entertaining critique, not a how-to manual

In Katie Kitamura’s brilliant novel Intimacies (2022), the story of a former African dictator being tried in the International Criminal Court, there is a summary of the case against the accused:

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Luis Echeverría obituary

Former Mexican president who took office promising reform but oversaw a dirty war against dissidents

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