Voting For Nobody in Chile’s New Democracy
In December 1997, parliamentary elections were held in Chile to renew the entire Chamber of Deputies and half the elected ...
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 ...