Chile: Forty Years of Controversial History

http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2011/06/chiles-politics

2011-06-16T12:51:00.000-04:00

http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2011/06/chiles-politics

Movies you can watch: The Black Pipernel (2007)

2010-08-12T01:29:00.000-04:00

Dir. Åsa Faringer - Ulf Hultberg (2007) The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973. We travel with Edelstam during the terrible moments just after the coup and follows his never-ending fight for human rights, law and order. What drove him? And

Movies you can watch: Dawson, Island 10

2010-08-12T01:08:00.000-04:00

Dir. Miguel Littin (2009) After the 1973 coup that deposed Allende and brought Pinochet to power in Chile, the former members of his cabinet are imprisoned on Dawson Island, the world's southernmost concentration camp. Veteran filmmaker Miguel Littin follows the ordeal of these men who are determined to survive and provide history with their testimony. Dawson Island 10 on IMDB

Movies you can watch: Machuca

2010-08-12T00:57:00.003-04:00

Dir. Andrés Wood (2004) In 1973, in Santiago of Chile of the first socialist president democratically elected in a Latin-American country, President Salvador Allende, the principal of the Saint Patrick School, Father McEnroe makes a trial of integration between students of the upper and lower classes. The bourgeois boy Gonzalo Infante and the boy from the slum Pedro Machuca become great friends,

Luis Corvalán Dies at 93 - Led Communists in Chile - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

2010-07-29T03:24:00.000-04:00

Luis Corvalán Dies at 93 - Led Communists in Chile - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com:

When the day dawns - Angel Parra

2010-07-29T02:26:00.004-04:00

Because not everything is about politics, I'll post -once in a while- some of the most famous and important chilean songs composed in the last forty years of our history. Now, we'll listen to Angel Parra and his beautiful song Cuando Amanece el Día/When The Day Dawns... enjoy! When the day dawns When the day dawns I say how lucky I am to witness, how the dark night ends, that gave pain and

The Rettig Report

2010-07-25T22:48:00.001-04:00

The Rettig Report, officially The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report, is a report by a commission designated by then President Patricio Aylwin (from the Concertación) encompassing human rights abuses resulting in death or disappearance that occurred in Chile during the years of military rule under Augusto Pinochet, which began on September 11, 1973 and ended on March 11, 1990

Chile denies pardon for dictatorship-era crimes

2010-07-25T22:17:00.000-04:00

Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:56pm EDTBy Alonso Soto SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Sunday denied a pardon to people jailed for dictatorship-era crimes, a move likely to ease tensions with the opposition and rights groups over a controversial call for clemency. Chile's Catholic Church had asked Pinera to free or lower jail sentences of military officers convicted for human

Chile Rejects Pardons Proposed By Catholic Church : NPR

2010-07-25T22:13:00.000-04:00

Chile Rejects Pardons Proposed By Catholic Church : NPR: "- Enviado mediante la barra Google"

Chile Church seeks pardons, including rights cases

2010-07-24T04:04:00.001-04:00

By CARLA CANDIA (AP) – 2 days ago SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile's Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday urged President Sebastian Pinera to grant a sweeping pardon to aged and long-serving inmates — and the fact it would aid military officers who committed crimes against humanity has angered relatives of their victims. Families of people who were slain or who vanished during Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990

1973 Revolutions Per Minute

2010-07-24T03:55:00.001-04:00

1973 revoluciones por minuto is a 2008 chilean movie directed by Fernando Valenzuela. In New York, an actor in an empty theater, revives the last hours of President Allende, in September 11, 1973. Here, all alone, with the certainty that he is fighting his last battle, he remembers his childhood, his beloved father, his family, the women he loved, and confronts without hesitation his ultimate

The Last Speech of President Salvador Allende

2010-07-24T03:34:00.001-04:00

In the middle of the attack to the Presidential Palace, on September 11th of 1973, President Allende spoke for the last time to the citizens. Here you can listen to the speech and read it, in english. My friends, Surely this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air Force has bombed the antennas of Radio Magallanes. My words do not have bitterness but disappointment. May

Chile's New President

2010-01-18T16:19:00.007-03:00

Right-Wing Businessman Wins Chile’s Presidency Aliosha Marquez/Associated Press Supporters of Sebastián Piñera, candidate of the Coalition for Change, celebrated in Santiago, Chile, after the first results of a presidential runoff were announced.By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVOEAVB_IFUFEEPKIX SANTIAGO, Chile — Sebastián Piñera, a billionaire businessman

Coming back

2009-11-22T23:26:00.003-03:00

Dear friends,First of all, I'm sorry. I've been away several months, because of my job and because the new season 2009 -2010 of lectures about chilean history and politics started on september. So, I had a lot of work and besides that, last friday I had a little accident: I fell on the street, inches away from my office and i now i had a little fracture on my ankle... so now I have this plaster

Novels you can read about chilean history and politics: Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman

2009-03-07T16:33:00.004-03:00

Years after she was blindfolded and tortured by Pinochet's police force, Chilean woman Paulina marries Gerardo and through him meets, Roberto, whose voice she is certain was that of the man who tortured her years before.Editorial Review: "This powerful political drama and psychological thriller by the noted Chilean writer premiered in London last summer, where it won the Time Out Award for Best

An Interview with Salvador Allende

2009-03-07T16:18:00.002-03:00

In this historic interview with Salvador Allende, Chile's new president articulates his basic beliefs and lays out the program he intended to persue as leader of the Popular Unity government. The conversation shows with rare candor Allende´s deep-seated belief in the Chilean Constitution and in the ability of his coalition to maintain control for the elected six-year period. He discusses the

The 1988 referendum: Yes or No

2009-03-07T14:47:00.010-03:00

As I've told you in the lecture, Pinochet's new constitution included a referendum in 1998 to define the continuity of his administration. Pinochet was convinced that he was going to win, so he prepared the referendum (plebiscito in spanish) defining himself as the candidate.In those years Pinochet's advisers commited a terrible mistake: the government gave to the to options Yes and No, fifteen

Chilean Human Rights Program

2009-03-07T14:07:00.005-03:00

After the democracy was restored, former president Patricio Aylwin organized a comission -the Rettig Comission- to investigate all the human rights violations commited in Pinochet's Dictatorship. Here we have the link to the Chilean Human Rights Program where you can find all the reports and documents about the victims, that were in total 3.195. 1.183 of them are missing detainees.

Augusto Pinochet: 1915-2006

2009-03-07T13:51:00.005-03:00

One year after his death, the right wing chilean newspaper El Mercurio published an interactive special about Pinochet, with multiple information about his life and the place that he has in chilean history (in spanish). In english you can visit our link section and then go to the Times Topic about Pinochet in The New York Times.

What chileans think about President Bachelet?

2009-03-07T13:27:00.004-03:00

Few days ago, ADIMARK (an important researcher in public opinion here in Chile as Gallup in USA) published the results of the last poll about President Bachelet Job Approval. Here we have the results (in spanish):Evaluacion Gobierno Febrero09 Publish at Scribd or explore others: Politics & Governmen Presentations & Slid 2008 Gobierno

11' 09'' 01

2009-03-06T22:27:00.004-03:00

11'9''01 September 11 (2002, 135 min), is an international film composed of 11 contributions from different filmmakers, each from a different country. Each gave their own vision of the events in New York City on September 11, 2001, in a short film of 11 minutes, 9 seconds, and one frame. The original concept and production of the film were by French producer Alain Brigand. The film received the "

Anonymous Image

2009-03-06T22:13:00.003-03:00

The arrival of the president Salvador Allende, with helmet and rifle, to one of the patios of the presidential palace on the morning of september 11, 1973 show us the decision to defend the mandate of the people. Only one photographer was there, but nobody remember him.Anonymous Image it is not only the story of the only one picture that won the World Press Photo prize in anonymous status, but

About this blog

2009-03-06T21:06:00.003-03:00

Dear travelers, My name is Loreto Navarrete, but my friends from USA call me Lory. I'm a social anthropologist and since this summer I'm doing a lecture called "Chile: Allende and Pinochet. Forty years of controversial history" for all the passengers that are traveling with Grand Circle Travel to Chile. The idea is that you can learn and discovery more about Chile, and its exciting history. As