Chile: A Schizophrenic Country

Chile: A Schizophrenic Country

  We Chileans are known around the world for having undertaken an “exemplary democratic transition” and for having made a ...
A Journey in Exile

A Journey in Exile

  We who survived and found ourselves heading to exile took the opportunity to begin a new life, to come ...
The Politics of Memory and the Memory of Politics

The Politics of Memory and the Memory of Politics

  What is it about events in Chile now four decades past that continue to provide us with metaphors for ...
Guilty by Definition

Guilty by Definition

Beyond Walls and Cages brings together 36 writers, academics, and activists to explore the interaction between the prison and immigration ...
Popular Unity Government: Basic Program

Popular Unity Government: Basic Program

In our March 1971 issue, NACLA offered an English-language translation of the Basic Program of Chile’s just elected Popular Unity ...
Chile 40 Years Later: The Politics of Memory and the Memory of Politics

Chile 40 Years Later: The Politics of Memory and the Memory of Politics

  In November 2012, a 70-year old Israeli ex-mercenary named Yair Klein testified via teleconference from his home country before ...
From the Fringes of Empire: U.S. Third World Feminists in Solidarity With Chile

From the Fringes of Empire: U.S. Third World Feminists in Solidarity With Chile

  In your country how / do you say copper / for my country? – June Jordan   In her ...
Today's Student Movement and the Popular Unity

Today’s Student Movement and the Popular Unity

  At least since the “pingüino” uprising of 2006, students have been an active part of the attempt to reform ...