All Articles on Salvador Allende
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Views Chile's Socialist Rebar Ever since deregulation caused a worldwide economic meltdown in September '08 and everyone became a Keynesian again, it hasn't been easy to be a fanatical fan of the late economist Milton Friedman. So widely discredited is his brand of free-market fundamentalism that his followers have become... Read more |
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Views Why Washington Cares About Countries Like Haiti and Honduras US interference in the politics of Haiti and Honduras is only the latest example of its long-term manipulations in Latin America Read more |
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News Chile: Old Soldiers Ready to Tell Secrets of Coup SANTIAGO, Chile — Hundreds of former military draftees are making a provocative offer to Chile's government: They will reveal details of crimes committed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship — but only if their safety is guaranteed. The draftees fear that if they reveal where the bodies are... Read more |
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Views Honduran Coup Regime in Crisis How long can the Honduran crisis drag on, with President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a military coup more than three months ago, trapped in Tegucigalpa's Brazilian Embassy? Well, in early 1949 in Peru, Víctor Haya de la Torre--one of last century's most important Latin American politicians--sought... Read more |
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Views CIA Torturers Running Scared For the CIA supervisors and operatives who were responsible for torture, the chickens are coming home to roost. That is, if President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder mean it when they say no one is above the law - and if they have the courage to stand up to brazen intimidation. Unable... Read more |
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Views Why I Was So Wrong on September 11th On September 11, 2001, a fellow New Yorker and friend of mine , a public health historian who knew instantly what the dangers were, bicycled directly into the smoke, ash, and chemicals that hung over lower Manhattan searching for his daughter whose school was only blocks away from the collapsed... Read more |
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Views This Is an Idiot's Version of Her Masterpiece Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. She takes the central myth of the right, "that since the fall of Soviet tyranny, free elections and free markets have skipped hand in hand together towards the shimmering sunset of history", and shows... Read more |
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Views Pinochet's Enablers in US, Brazil The news media has reported that in 1971 the Nixon administration discussed with Brazilian military ruler, General Emilio Garrastazu Médici, a cooperative effort to overthrow the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. The secret talks made public this week reveal another... Read more |
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News Honduras: The Right-Wing Coup d'état is Faltering, but Its Supporters Have Powerful Friends in Washington Democracy hangs by a thread Read more |
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Views Showdown in 'Tegucigolpe' One of the hemisphere's most critical struggles for democracy in 20 years is now unfolding in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa (nicknamed "Tegucigolpe" for its long history of military coup d'états, which are called golpes de estado, in Spanish). Despite censorship and repression, popular anger... Read more |