Cross-Border Terrorism: Operation Condor
Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who requested the arrest of Pinochet while he was visiting a London clinic, is spearheading ...
Declassifying U.S. Intervention in Chile
"In the United States, as you know, we are sympathetic with what you are trying to do here," then Secretary ...
Book Review Essay: The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy
How inexorably antidemocratic is the Guatemalan army? This is the question anthropologist Jennifer Schirmer asks in her new book, summarizing ...
The Pinochet Precedent: Changing the Equation of Repression
The October arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in Britain for having ordered thousands of murders and disappearances in Chile is ...
Pinochet’s Heirs: The Fractured Chilean Right
For Chilean conservatives, limping along the road to a third consecutive defeat in presidential politics, Pinochet's arrest in London on ...
Women on the Right
On December 9, 1998, British Minister of the Interior Jack Straw ruled that General Pinochet could be extradited to Spain ...
The Chicago Boys Come Home
In their efforts to sell privatization and deregulation in the United States, conservatives have found inspiration in the free-market extremism ...
Time for a U.S. Truth Commission
This past February, the UN Commission for Historical Clarification published an extensive report on human rights violations committed during the ...