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Augusto Pinochet

Postcards from Santiago — Chile’s great city of upheaval and nostalgia

Maverick Life

Postcards from Santiago — Chile’s great city of upheaval and nostalgia

By Janet Heard

Never again — world waits to see if Chileans will vote to say goodbye to Pinochet’s neoliberalism

World

Never again — world waits to see if Chileans will vote to say goodbye to Pinochet’s neoliberalism

By Olaf Kaltmeier, Alberto Acosta, Luis Bazán, Ulrich Brand, Claudia Briones, David Diaz Arias and Mara Viveros

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: The lows and highs of a scribe – from Pinochet’s Chile to Dr Seuss and Sir Edmund Hillary

Politics

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: The lows and highs of a scribe – from Pinochet’s Chile to Dr Seuss and Sir Edmund Hillary

By Terry Bell

Neruda rising: Chile exhumes a poet

Maverick Life

Neruda rising: Chile exhumes a poet

By Richard Poplak

Torture ‘for your amusement’: How Thatcher’s government misled MPs and public about its dealings with the Pinochet regime

World

Torture ‘for your amusement’: How Thatcher’s government misled MPs and public about its dealings with the Pinochet regime

By Grace Livingstone

By Unknown Author

Ariel Dorfman reminds South Africa that it is not different

Politics

Ariel Dorfman reminds South Africa that it is not different

By Andy Rice