This Monday marks 50 years since the civil-military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Fifty years since the bombing of…

When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism…

After being elected Chile’s president in 1970, Salvador Allende discussed his background and political outlook with the French writer Régis Debray. In…

Over thirty years after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, the government of Chile has formally admitted responsibility for the disappearance, and…

Chileans were unable to turn a national uprising into transformation of the social order. For the US there is much to learn…

The 50th anniversary of the first 9/11 — the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government government headed by Socialist Party…

On September 4, 1973, an enormous multitude of Chileans—I was one of them—poured into the streets of Santiago to back the besieged…

October 2019 is a month of paramount importance in Chile’s current political imagination. On Friday, October 18, while millionaire-turned-president Sebastián Piñera celebrated…

Stafford Beer pioneered ‘cybernetic management principles’ but Pinochet’s coup saw technology turned to nefarious ends In the autumn of 1971, an ambitious…

A conversation with Bárbara Navarrete, secretary-general of the Communist Youth of Chile. “We are a generation totally interested in taking power,” says…