Judgement Day in Chile
On May 8 of this year, an unusually warm fall day in Santiago, Chile’s capital, I found myself seated in ...
The War at Home-Security and Terrorism
One of the first acts of the new Republican-dominated Senate Judi- ciary Committee was to create a Subcommittee on Security ...
The Pinochet File
We all have different ways of taking notes on books we read. As a historian, I’ve used the same technique ...
Eyewitness to a Coup
Eyewitness to a Coup“In September, 1973, I was a 26-year-old doctoral student finishing my dissertation research ... my own political ...
Contadora: War by Other Means
FOR A YEAR AND A HALF, THE CONTA- dora peace process has been the most popular game on the block ...
Anniversary Essay: Democracy Versus Democracy
In late April, 1965, some 20,000 U.S. marines stormed the beaches of Santo Domingo in a successful attempt to crush ...
Chile and History: The Meanings of 1973
It is probably inevitable that historical watersheds are transformed into slo- gans of tremendous symbolic power. Nixon encountered his "Waterloo" ...
Bolivia- Assassinations and Economic Assaults
Less than a week after the military government of General Luis Garcia Meza announced a round of sweeping price hikes ...