https://znetwork.org/author/arieldorfman/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:31:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/arieldorfman/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/duck/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/duck/#respond Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1258349 This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in my life. The first occurred a century ago in Hollywood: on October 16, 1923, Walt Disney signed into being the corporation that bears his name. The second took place in Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1973, when socialist President [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/duck/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-other-9-11-ariel-dorfman-on-50th-anniversary-of-u-s-backed-coup-in-chile-that-ousted-allende/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-other-9-11-ariel-dorfman-on-50th-anniversary-of-u-s-backed-coup-in-chile-that-ousted-allende/#respond Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:18:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1253791 We look at the 50th anniversary of what is sometimes called the “other 9/11” — the U.S.-backed coup in Chile, when General Augusto Pinochet ousted President Salvador Allende and inaugurated almost two decades of brutal military rule. Allende died in the presidential palace on September 11, 1973, marking the end of Chile’s first socialist government. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-other-9-11-ariel-dorfman-on-50th-anniversary-of-u-s-backed-coup-in-chile-that-ousted-allende/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-allende/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-allende/#comments Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:42:50 +0000 On September 4, 1973, an enormous multitude of Chileans—I was one of them—poured into the streets of Santiago to back the besieged government of Salvador Allende. Ever since he had won the presidency three years earlier with 36.6 percent of the vote in a three-way race, forces from inside and outside the country had been [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-allende/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/salvador-allende-still-speaks-to-us-today/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/salvador-allende-still-speaks-to-us-today/#respond Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:29:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1233679 Fifty years ago, in late 1972, I was one of a multitude of Chileans who lined the streets of Santiago to support President Salvador Allende as he embarked on a trip abroad to tell the world about how his homeland was advancing toward socialism using democratic means—an unprecedented revolutionary process that was under siege from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/salvador-allende-still-speaks-to-us-today/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/where-does-chile-go-from-here/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/where-does-chile-go-from-here/#respond Sat, 10 Sep 2022 15:14:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1219561 I confess that I am in mourning. On Sunday, a resounding 62% of the voters in Chile, my country, rejected the adoption of a new and progressive Magna Carta; leaving in place, for now, the fraudulent constitution imposed by dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1980 that has acted as a straitjacket to indispensable reforms. Like many of my [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/where-does-chile-go-from-here/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-chile-approve-a-new-constitution-or-stick-with-pinochets-legacy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-chile-approve-a-new-constitution-or-stick-with-pinochets-legacy/#respond Sat, 03 Sep 2022 15:17:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1218707 An existential choice awaits the Chilean people in a referendum on Sunday to approve (apruebo) a new constitution or reject it (rechazo), leaving in place a national charter fraudulently imposed on the country in 1980 by dictator Augusto Pinochet. Put in those stark terms and considering the origins of the referendum, its outcome would seem a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-chile-approve-a-new-constitution-or-stick-with-pinochets-legacy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/president-boric-must-lay-chiles-ghosts-to-rest/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/president-boric-must-lay-chiles-ghosts-to-rest/#respond Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:25:43 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1056139 Oppressive conservative forces are still strong in Chile and Gabriel Boric’s supporters are impatient for change. Can he fulfil his promise?]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/president-boric-must-lay-chiles-ghosts-to-rest/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chiles-bold-adventure-in-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chiles-bold-adventure-in-democracy/#respond Mon, 21 Feb 2022 13:37:26 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1055295 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]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chiles-bold-adventure-in-democracy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-meaning-of-borics-victory-in-chile/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-meaning-of-borics-victory-in-chile/#comments Sat, 25 Dec 2021 09:00:33 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1053045 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-meaning-of-borics-victory-in-chile/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chiles-future-at-stake/ 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