Twilight of the General: Chile After the Arrest of Pinochet

"In the United States, as you know, we are sympathetic with what you are trying to do here," then Secretary

Almost every year, Augusto Pinochet feels an overwhelming compulsion to visit London. The symptoms include the craving to have tea

Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who requested the arrest of Pinochet while he was visiting a London clinic, is spearheading

On February 25, the UN Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) published its final report. The CEH, cre- ated by the

How inexorably antidemocratic is the Guatemalan army? This is the question anthropologist Jennifer Schirmer asks in her new book, summarizing

In considering the current status of the conflict in southeastern Mexico, four fundamental realities must be kept in mind. First,

In December 1997, parliamentary elections were held in Chile to renew the entire Chamber of Deputies and half the elected

In their efforts to sell privatization and deregulation in the United States, conservatives have found inspiration in the free-market extremism

On December 9, 1998, British Minister of the Interior Jack Straw ruled that General Pinochet could be extradited to Spain

On February 25, the UN Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) published its final report. The CEH, cre- ated by the

The October arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in Britain for having ordered thousands of murders and disappearances in Chile is

This past February, the UN Commission for Historical Clarification published an extensive report on human rights violations committed during the