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      Burning Books and Destroying Education on the Path to Fascist Dictatorship

      From Nazi Germany to the Pinochet regime in Chile, global parallels with where this type of repression leads should set off alarms.

      Chuck Idelson
      Feb 28, 2023

      Widening the lens on the escalating assault on education and those who teach it offers chilling thoughts on the future of U.S. democracy.

      From book bans to classroom demonizing trans youth and LGBTQ lives, to eradicating the real history of the U.S. and its ongoing legacy on racial and gender oppression, to the intimidation of educators and purging those who don't toe the line, global parallels with where this repression leads should set off alarms.

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      Pablo Neruda

      Forensic Probe Confirms Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda Was Poisoned After Pinochet Coup

      A toxicology reportreveals a "great quantity" of the neurotoxin clostridium botulinum was found in the body of the leftist—who claimed he was injected while hospitalized just before his death in September 1973.

      Brett Wilkins
      Feb 14, 2023

      Pablo Neruda, the Chilean Nobel poet laureate, diplomat, and leftist politician who died days after Gen. Augusto Pinochet seized power in a 1973 U.S.-backed military coup, was poisoned to death, his nephew said Monday ahead of the expected publication of a new toxicology report later this week.

      The revelation by the nephew, Rodolfo Reyes, confirms long-held suspicions that Neruda—an ardent communist—was murdered in the early days of Pinochet's far-right dictatorship. Reyes told Spain's EFE that laboratory testing showed a "great quantity" of clostridium botulinum—a neurotoxic bacteria that is one of the most poisonous known biological substances—in Neruda's body when he died.

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      Washington Post Ripped for 'Neocolonial' Editorial Against Chile's New Constitution

      "U.S. capital is worried Chile's working class is gonna make it more difficult to get cheap lithium for your Tesla," quipped one progressive economist.

      Brett Wilkins
      Sep 04, 2022

      The editorial board of The Washington Post came under fire Sunday for arguing against Chile's proposed new constitution on the grounds that, if enacted, the document could make it harder for the United States to acquire Chilean lithium.

      "Green or not, energy for the North continues to trump democracy in the South."

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