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Chile's new president will need his allies on the left

Chile’s new president will need his allies on the left

January 22, 2022

Gabriel Boric was elected president of Chile on December 19th. In an LRB article about his campaign, he was said to be embarrassed by one of the parties that supported him, when it welcomed Daniel Ortega’s re-election in Nicaragua the previous month. LRB published the letter below in its issue of January 27th, in response […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, chile, Nicaraguan elections

Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer

Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer

November 15, 2020

“Almost every American overthrow of a foreign government has left in its wake a bitter residue of pain and anger.” A review of Overthrow by Stephen Kinser, published in 2006.

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, Guatemala, chile, Honduras | 3 Responses

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

May 26, 2014

Some years ago, in an article about unwritten books that people would like to read, someone selected the yet-to-be-written “Prison Memoirs of Henry Kissinger”. Now aged 90, the chances of Kissinger being tried for his war crimes, much less sent to prison, are rapidly diminishing. However, he has outlived Christopher Hitchens, one of his accusers, […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: US intervention, chile

Pinochet's firm government

Pinochet’s firm government

September 11, 2013

Today is the fortieth anniversary of the coup that toppled Salvador Allende.  There are still many unresolved crimes from his period in power. Twenty years ago, I spent a week working on a housing project in one of Santiago’s poorest barrios. It was only three years since Pinochet had left office; people guardedly expressed a […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, chile

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