Salvador Allende
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How public influence over economic matters is eroded
The experience of Chile’s Salvador Allende illustrates how the private sphere and superpowers control investment and natural resource exploitation
The bewildering vote in Chile that rejected a new constitution
Did compulsory voting give evangelicals the opportunity to trash progressive reforms?
Did 9/11 really change everything? It’s hard to tell if you’re brown
Witnessing 9/11 in New York, the fear and the unity, no one could agree if we were entering a new world, or a depressingly familiar one
Probe confirms suicide of Chile’s Salvador Allende
Experts studying the remains of Salvador Allende concluded the former president committed suicide.
Allende’s body taken from Chile tomb for autopsy
The remains of deposed Chilean president Salvador Allende have been removed from his tomb to determine if he committed suicide or was assassinated.
Judge orders Chilean president exhumed
A Chilean judge ordered the remains of former president Salvador Allende exhumed for an investigation into whether he was murdered in a 1973 coup.
Anti-apartheid campaigner rejects SA award
A New Zealand anti-apartheid campaigner has rejected a nomination for a South African award, saying he is dismayed over conditions in the country. John Minto was the national…
The undefeated
Master of the middlebrow or late magical-realist? Isabel Allende discusses her writing with Aida Edermariam