Chile

Like nearly every political person in Chile, Laura Rodríguez chain-smokes and talks a blue streak. She is a congresswoman, elected

September 11, 1978, marks five years since the Chilean Armed Forces overthrew Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government in one of

World reaction to the Chilean military junta that overthrew the Unidad Popular government on September 11, 1973, has been overwhelmingly

"It's a national disgrace! There's money for Pinochet and not for education!" With this angry message, the students of Santiago's

Chile’s economy has been transformed over the three decades that have elapsed since the 1973 coup that imposed a bloody

LIMA, Peru. Dec. 1-The ultranationalist forces unleashed by the military coup d'etat here on Oct. 3, are now eyeing the

Since June of 1965 five UCLA students and a professor have left Los Angeles each summer bound for six weeks

Like anyone who makes a living from the sea, Arnoldo Raimilla is no stranger to outside forces. On Chilod island

Three icons of U.S.-Latin American foreign policy died this month. Milton Friedman, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Augusto Pinochet may not have met in the same room, but together they helped construct the architecture of hemispheric relations that has endured well into the current Bush government.

In Santiago on September 11, 1973, I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist president of Chile died in the palace.

The national strike declared on August 29 against neoliberal policies by the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), Chile's main labor union, left more than 300 detained and hundreds injured throughout the country. And yet, only one of the protestors received a public apology from a chief of police: Socialist senator, Alejandro Navarro.

Of all the land disputes between indigenous communities and large landowners that have mushroomed in Argentina during the last decade, none acquired the public notoriety of the battle waged in the northern Patagonian province of Chubut in 2004. The David-and-Goliath elements of the confrontation ensured unprecedented media attention to an issue long neglected by mainstream Argentina.