We look at the 50th anniversary of what is sometimes called the “other 9/11” — the U.S.-backed coup in Chile, when General…
Ariel Dorfman
Born in Buenos Aires on May 6, 1942, Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. He is the author of numerous works of fiction, plays, operas, musicals, poems, journalism and essays in both Spanish and English.
His most recent books are the novels Darwin’s Ghosts and Cautivos, as well as the children’s story, The Rabbits’ Rebellion. He contributes regularly to major newspapers and magazines around the world and is active in the defense of human rights.
On September 4, 1973, an enormous multitude of Chileans—I was one of them—poured into the streets of Santiago to back the besieged…
Fifty years ago, in late 1972, I was one of a multitude of Chileans who lined the streets of Santiago to support…
I confess that I am in mourning. On Sunday, a resounding 62% of the voters in Chile, my country, rejected the adoption of…
An existential choice awaits the Chilean people in a referendum on Sunday to approve (apruebo) a new constitution or reject it (rechazo), leaving…
Oppressive conservative forces are still strong in Chile and Gabriel Boric’s supporters are impatient for change. Can he fulfil his promise?
Despite challenges and disputes aplenty, my country has embarked on a remarkable project: a truly popular debate about what sort of nation it should aspire to be
The causes he believes in are those youth everywhere have been increasingly fighting for across the globe
In Chile, voters will determine a close runoff election between far-right candidate José Antonio Kast and leftist Gabriel Boric, a former student leader
Perhaps those guardians of my country’s dignity, the ghosts of those that Pinochet banished from this world, will protect their compatriots as we decide the fate of our beloved and besieged land
