Chile: Thirty Years Later

Chile: Thirty Years Later

The historical importance of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity (UP) coalition, which governed Chile following its electoral triumph in 1970 until ...
Chile's Mapuche: Not Yet "Pacified

Chile’s Mapuche: Not Yet “Pacified

The past two decades have seen increasing conflict between Chile’s indigenous peoples—particularly the country’s largest indigenous group, the Mapuche—and a ...
Mercosur’s Hope

Mercosur’s Hope

We can get a better sense of what the privatizing, austerity-driven Washington Consensus for the South is all about if ...
Mercosur’s Hope

Mercosur’s Hope

We can get a better sense of what the privatizing, austerity-driven Washington Consensus for the South is all about if ...
Opening Up the Files: Chile Declassified

Opening Up the Files: Chile Declassified

“It is not a part of our country’s history that we are proud of.” —Secretary of State Colin Powell, answering ...
Resurrecting Allende

Resurrecting Allende

“This radio station will be silenced and my quiet voice will no longer reach you. But it does not matter; ...
From Allende to Lula: Assessing the Legacy

From Allende to Lula: Assessing the Legacy

As Chileans and progressives around the world mark the 30th anniversary of the violent military coup that overthrew Chile’s socialist ...
Fish and Flexibility: Working in the New Chile

Fish and Flexibility: Working in the New Chile

Chile’s economy has been transformed over the three decades that have elapsed since the 1973 coup that imposed a bloody ...