For more than a decade in the 1970s and ’80s I worked as a translator with the Chilean writer Fernando Alegría, who at the time was chairman of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at ...

Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading ...

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font strongly condemned opposition leader Evelyn Matthei’s justification of the 1973 coup ...

the positive opinion of the dictator's regime began to grow steadily, after reaching one of its historic lows in 2013 when only 16% thought that Pinochet was right. “Finally, we find a third ...

The recent television series tells the story of the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez’s operatives, who sought to overthrow Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in the 1980s.

Of these, roughly 3,000 were murdered or disappeared by the Pinochet regime, most of them because of their political activities. The commission also confirmed that it had been the government’s ...

For them, it's like a movie." And for many Chileans born after the end of the Pinochet regime, even those scenes felt distant. But in October 2019, after decades of perceived peace and prosperity ...

Following the US-backed coup that overthrew Salvador Allende on September 11th, 1973, Pinochet’s regime set about “removing Marxism from Chile”. Pinochet’s newly established secret police ...

Paz Errázuriz documented people on the margins during the Pinochet regime in Chile. She describes how she operated under the radar, turning photography into political resistance. A weekly summary ...

She has spoken out in Chile on behalf of the thousands of other victims of Pinochet’s regime and contributed to the international case against Pinochet that was initiated in Spain and England.