Twenty-five years after Chile's return to democracy, glorifying Augusto Pinochet has finally become taboo, but the country is still fighting to erase the social and political legacy of his ...
On September 11, 1973, tanks rumbled over the streets of Santiago, Chile. Planes bombed La Moneda, the presidential palace, as US-backed General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected ...
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Chile at the crossroads

A dramatic shift to the extreme right threatens the future—and past—for human rights and accountability. This past Monday morning, Chileans awoke to a new reality. Some 35 years after the return to ...
Mr. Dorfman, a Chilean American writer, is the author of the play “Death and the Maiden” and the novels “The Suicide Museum” and “Allegro.” Gen. Augusto ...