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The Other 9/11: A Ghost Story
Aug 30, 2023 Decades after Pinochet left power, the national trauma of his dictatorship continues to visibly permeate Chilean life.
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After the Coup: An Interview With Peter Kornbluh, Part II
Jul 11, 2023 How Kissinger and the CIA bolstered the regime of Augusto Pinochet for years—until they couldn’t.
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Kissinger and the CIA in Chile: An Interview With Peter Kornbluh, Part I
Jul 6, 2023 A comprehensive review of the U.S. role in the 1973 coup of Salvador Allende and its aftermath.
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Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir
May 16, 2023 The last man standing in defense of the “bourgeois” constitution would be the Marxist President, AK-47 in hand.
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Chile: Leftist Administration Hit Hard By Latest Constitutional Vote
May 10, 2023 The extreme right takes 22 out of 50 seats on a committee to rewrite the constitution.
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Two Allende Supporters, Two Nights in Jail and a Gun
Apr 21, 2023 In 1973, Marc Cooper was detained for carrying a weapon in the streets of Santiago. It could have gone much worse.
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The Radical Walls of Santiago
Mar 20, 2023 In Chile, murals tell the story of the country's political journey.
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Chile’s Utopia Has Been Postponed
Mar 8, 2023 Journalist Marc Cooper was serving as personal translator to Chilean president Salvador Allende when the 1973 U.S.-backed coup led by Augusto Pinochet forced him to flee the country. In January, Cooper returned to Santiago to observe the country’s political situation 50 years later. He found a Chile transformed but uncertain, struggling to chart a course forward one year after the election of its first leftist government since Allende.
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How the Big Awakening Became a Hangover
Mar 8, 2023 Chile's new constitution failed. Now its leftist president is trying to reignite hopes for change.
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