Pinochet's Legacy
Marc Cooper : Augusto Pinochet
The death of Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet should not blunt the
work of healing the damage he has done and shining light on the truth.
2006
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Chile Looks (Slightly) Left
Pascale Bonnefoy : Michelle Bachelet
Michelle Bachelet has vowed Chile will be a different country by the end of her four-year term. But she will likely be remembered more for continuity than for change.
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New Day for Bolivia
Tom Hayden : Bolivia
The inauguration of Evo Morales as Bolivia's first indigenous president opens a new era for Bolivia and a turning point for political, diplomactic and trade issues in the Americas.
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Bachelet's Big Win
Laila Weir
Michelle Bachelet's election as Chile's first female president represents many things for her fellow citizens: the certainty of political continuity, the possibility of change and a commitment to the past.
2005
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Pinochet's Week In Court
Peter Kornbluh : Augusto Pinochet
Chile's Supreme Court handed Augusto Pinochet both a victory and a blow with its recent rulings on Operation Columbo and Operation Condor.
2004
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The Maxwell Affair
Scott Sherman : Journalists & Journalism
A review of The Pinochet File draws the wrath of Henry Kissinger.
2003
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Remembering Allende
His dual commitment to socialism and democracy ought to be a model today.
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Chile, 9/11/73
Peter Kornbluh : US Intelligence/Covert Ops
Declassified documents reveal the US government's role in the Pinochet coup.
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Lessons of a Catastrophe
Chile was a democracy, yet tyranny triumphed--in the name of fighting terror.
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Chile's Strange Justice
Juan Pablo Letelier's plight is emblematic of Chile's skewed democratic transition.
2002
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Enron and the Bushes
When George W. Bush was first running for governor of Texas in 1994, we looked at Bush family activities on behalf of Enron in Argentina.
2001
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Chile and the End of Pinochet
Marc Cooper : US Intelligence/Covert Ops
Efforts to shelve the issue of human rights in Chile have wildly backfired.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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