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
How relevant to anyone today is this youthful book, hastily forged in the midst of a revolution whose own days were numbered?
Confronted by a stark choice between the dreadful past and a still-to-be-charted future — and grappling with the discontents and challenges facing so many countries, including the United States — what will Chile decide?
Ariel Dorfman delivered these remarks at the 45th anniversary Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Program on September 19, 2021
Let us hope it does not take 30 years, and immense additional suffering, for the sovereign American people to recognize that it is time to achieve a higher form of democracy that will finally fulfill the promise of a more perfect union
Do the problems that beset us, so similar to those that plague our Chilean brothers and sisters, not cry out for a radical reimagining of who we are?
Dante Alighieri Has Words for Donald J. Trump From the Other Side of Death
Trump is a less fearsome figure than Pinochet and therefore should be easier to vanquish
I danced in the streets after Allende’s victory in Chile 50 years ago. Now I see its lessons for today
Lessons for the US, 50 Years After Allende’s Socialist Revolution in Chile
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