On Patricio Guzmán’s
Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997) is a film about the fractured biographical narratives of those whose lived experiences have been erased ...
Ecuador-Underdeveloping Democracy
Ever since August 10, 1979, when young Jaime Rold6s was voted into power after nine years of dictatorship, Ecuador's democratic ...
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 ...
A Time of Forgetting The Myths of the Chilean Transition
Nothing indicated that the Chilean postdictator.ship would be a time of forgetting. Nothing prepared us for the sustained attack against ...
Pinochet: The Great Conciliator
On August 19, on the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the military coup headed by General Augusto Pinochet on ...
The Future of Education and the Future of Work
One cannot talk about the future of education without talking about the future of work. There are immediate questions of ...
Brazil’s PT: Socialism as Radical Democracy
THE WORKERS PARTY (PT) OF BRAZIL IS THE most important new political party to form on the Left in Latin ...
And Justice, When?
When General Augusto Pinoehet ar- rived in Valparaiso last March to hand over power to Christian Democrat Patri- cio Aylwin ...